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title: Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood, send signals and contr… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood, send signals and control their temperature, not to match whatever they sit on. Who acts: Chameleons. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 13

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Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood, send signals and control their temperature, not to match whatever they sit on.

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**Who acts:** Chameleons · **What happens:** change, show, send, control, not match, sit on · **To what, where:** colour, mood, signals, temperature, whatever

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:13
# text = Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood, send signals and control their temperature, not to match whatever they sit on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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): R3-conj-first ×2
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	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
19	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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* | mood |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | signals |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme |
| 4 | **control** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | Chameleons's temperature |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **match** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient |
| 6 | **sit on** | present | Chameleons *= chameleon* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2. **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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