Time zones and the date line, sentence 16
France uses 12 time zones, more than any other country, if its overseas territories are counted.
Who acts: France · What happens: use, count · To what, where: 12 time zones, overseas territories
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 (France), 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 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 zones | nummod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zones | compound |
| 5 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 uses | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 more | punct |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 uses | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 country | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 more | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 counted | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 counted | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 territories | nmod:poss |
| 15 | overseas | overseas | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 territories | amod |
| 16 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 counted | aux:pass |
| 18 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 uses | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | France | 12 time zones | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | count a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | country's overseas territories | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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:16.
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.
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