--- title: Cartoons show a chameleon turning tartan on a tartan blanket and van… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show a chameleon turning tartan on a tartan blanket and vanishing; the real chameleon cannot copy patterns at all and changes colour mostly to show its mood and to warm up or cool down. Who acts: Cartoons, chameleon, real chameleon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cartoons, chameleon, real chameleon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:4 # text = Cartoons show a chameleon turning tartan on a tartan blanket and vanishing; the real chameleon cannot copy patterns at all and changes colour mostly to show its mood and to warm up or cool down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 051-how-animals-hide.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tartan tartan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 vanishing vanish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 20 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | a chameleon | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chameleon=Recipient | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | a chameleon *not said here* | tartan | | a tartan blanket | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | | 3 | **vanish** | gerund | a chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **copy** | can | the real chameleon | patterns | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | | 5 | **change** | present | the real chameleon *not said here* | all colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | the real chameleon *not said here* | chameleon's mood | | | | mostly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient | | 7 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | the real chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **cool down** | infinitive | the real chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/3/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)