--- title: A mirage of water on a hot road is light from the sky bent by hot ai… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:17 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 022-lenses-and-eyes.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mirage mirage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 14 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 puddle puddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound 27 vanishes vanish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lenses and eyes, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/16/) - next →: [Heat moves: hot to cold, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/)