Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 18
A mirage on a hot road is hot air bending light from the sky, not real water.
Who acts: mirage, hot air · What happens: be, bend · To what, where: hot air, light, sky
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday 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 (mirage, hot air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirage | det |
| 2 | mirage | mirage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirage | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 air | cop |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 air | acl |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bending | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bending | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 water | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 water | advmod |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 air | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a mirage on a hot road | hot air and real water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bend | gerund | hot air and real water not said here | light | the sky | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |
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, 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:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:18.
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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