Time zones and the date line, sentence 11
The International Date Line runs mostly along 180 degrees longitude through the Pacific, zigzagging round island groups, and crossing it westwards you jump forward one calendar day.
Who acts: International Date Line, you · What happens: run, zigzag, cross, jump · To what, where: degrees longitude, Pacific, round island groups, Line
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 (International Date Line, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Line | det |
| 2 | International | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Line | amod |
| 3 | Date | date | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Line | compound |
| 4 | Line | line | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 runs | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 180 | case |
| 8 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 degrees | nummod |
| 9 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 longitude | compound |
| 10 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 Pacific | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pacific | det |
| 13 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 groups | punct |
| 15 | zigzagging | zigzag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 runs | advcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 groups | amod |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 groups | compound |
| 18 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 zigzagging | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crossing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crossing | cc |
| 21 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 runs | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 crossing | obj |
| 23 | westwards | westward | ADV | _ | 21 crossing | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 jump | nsubj |
| 25 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 crossing | advcl |
| 26 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 jump | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 day | nummod |
| 28 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 day | compound |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jump | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the International Date Line | degrees longitude | the Pacific | mostly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pacific=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | zigzag | gerund | the International Date Line not said here | round island groups | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | the International Date Line not said here | Line | westward property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | jump | present | you | day | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:11.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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