--- title: A chameleon fires its tongue like a catapult and grabs a cricket in… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A chameleon fires its tongue like a catapult and grabs a cricket in a split second, while a gecko strolls upside down on the glass, held by millions of tiny hairs on its toes. Who acts: chameleon, gecko. 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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 (chameleon, gecko), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:1 # text = A chameleon fires its tongue like a catapult and grabs a cricket in a split second, while a gecko strolls upside down on the glass, held by millions of tiny hairs on its toes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fires fire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 catapult catapult NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 15 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 20 gecko gecko NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 strolls stroll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 22 upside upside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fire** | present | a chameleon | chameleon's tongue | | | | like a catapult | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 2 | **grab** | present | a chameleon *not said here* | a cricket | | split | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cricket=Theme | | 3 | **stroll** | present | a gecko | | | the glass | | upside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Trajectory | | 4 | **hold** | participle | a gecko *not said here* | | | | | by millions of tiny hairs on tongue's toes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by million=Location | 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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:1`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-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. 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