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title: Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature. — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature. Who acts: Chameleons. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 15

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Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature.

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**Who acts:** Chameleons · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** colour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:15
# text = Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	signalling	signalling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Chameleons | colour |  |  |  | for mood and signalling and temperature; mainly *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for mood=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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