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title: A mirage on a hot road is hot air bending light from the sky, not re… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mirage on a hot road is hot air bending light from the sky, not real water. Who acts: mirage, hot air. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 18

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A mirage on a hot road is hot air bending light from the sky, not real water.

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**Who acts:** mirage, hot air · **What happens:** be, bend · **To what, where:** hot air, light, sky

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:18
# text = A mirage on a hot road is hot air bending light from the sky, not real water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 280-illusions-and-adverts.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mirage	mirage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **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 |

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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: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.

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

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