Lenses and eyes, sentence 17
A mirage of water on a hot road is light from the sky bent by hot air near the road, which is why the puddle vanishes as you get closer.
Who acts: mirage, road, puddle, you · What happens: be, bend, vanish, get · To what, where: sky, road
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics 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, road, puddle, you), 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 | 10 light | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirage | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 road | amod |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirage | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | cop |
| 10 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obl |
| 14 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sky | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bent | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bent | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 why | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 why | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 why | cop |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 road | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 puddle | det |
| 26 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vanishes | nsubj |
| 27 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 why | ccomp |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 vanishes | advcl |
| 31 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 get | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a mirage of water on a hot road | the sky | light property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bend | participle | the sky not said here | the road | by hot air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by air=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | the road | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vanish | present | the puddle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | present | you | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:17.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/17/