--- title: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and to warm up or… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and to warm up or cool down, not mainly to match the background. Who acts: Chameleons. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 7 Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and to warm up or cool down, not mainly to match the background. **Who acts:** Chameleons · **What happens:** change, show, warm up, cool down, not match · **To what, where:** colour, mood, background 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 (Chameleons), 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:7 # text = Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and to warm up or cool down, not mainly to match the background. # 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): no change 1 Chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 18 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **change** | present | Chameleons | colour | | | | mostly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | eggs's mood | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient | | 3 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool down** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **match** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | the background | | | | mainly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:7`. **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): no change. **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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