Time zones and the date line, sentence 1

In 1337, when EU5 starts, every town simply kept its own sun time, and nobody minded because no horse or ship was fast enough for a few minutes to matter.

Who acts: EU5, town, nobody, horse · What happens: start, keep, mind, be, matter · To what, where: 1337

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 (EU5, town, nobody, horse), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1337	case
2	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kept	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1337	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 starts	advmod
5	EU5	EU5	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 starts	nsubj
6	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starts	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 time	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 minded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 minded	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 minded	nsubj
19	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	conj
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 fast	mark
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fast	nsubj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 ship	cc
24	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 horse	conj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fast	cop
26	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 minded	advcl
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 fast	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 minutes	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 minutes	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 minutes	amod
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fast	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 matter	mark
33	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 minutes	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	EU5				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	keep	past	every town	1337	time	simply property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1337=Location
3	mind	past	nobody				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	no horse or ship		minute	enough, fast property	tree rules
5	matter	to-infinitive	no horse or ship not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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