Time zones and the date line, sentence 0
The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight.
Who acts: Earth, noon · What happens: turn, slide · To what, where: 360 degrees, planet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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 (Earth, noon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 360 | 360 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 degrees | punct |
| 10 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 degrees | nummod |
| 11 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 degrees | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 degrees | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slides | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 slides | advmod |
| 16 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slides | nsubj |
| 17 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turns | parataxis |
| 18 | westwards | westward | ADV | _ | 17 slides | advmod |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 planet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 planet | det |
| 21 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slides | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 spotlight | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spotlight | det |
| 24 | spotlight | spotlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slides | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the Earth | 360 degrees and 15 degrees a hour | hour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | |||
| 2 | slide | present | noon | the planet | like a spotlight; westward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around planet=Trajectory |
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:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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