--- title: A chameleon's tongue can stretch to about twice its body length and… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A chameleon's tongue can stretch to about twice its body length and shoots out in a split second, with a sticky tip that grabs the insect. Who acts: tongue, sticky tip. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The reptile house: Komodo dragons, cha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/) / 6 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 6 A chameleon's tongue can stretch to about twice its body length and shoots out in a split second, with a sticky tip that grabs the insect. **Who acts:** tongue, sticky tip · **What happens:** stretch, shoot out, grab · **To what, where:** body length, insect This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, sticky tip), 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:6 # text = A chameleon's tongue can stretch to about twice its body length and shoots out in a split second, with a sticky tip that grabs the insect. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 12 advmod _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 split split ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **stretch** | can | a chameleon's tongue | | | tongue's body length | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to length=Location | | 2 | **shoot out** | present | a chameleon's tongue *not said here* | | | | second | with a sticky tip | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tip=Instrument | | 3 | **grab** | present | a sticky tip | the insect | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×1, 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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