Time zones and the date line, sentence 9

China uses a single time zone, UTC+8, for the whole country, even though it is about as wide as five standard zones; the clock follows Beijing in the east, so in the far west the Sun rises very late by the clock.

Who acts: China, country, clock, Sun · What happens: use, be, follow, rise · To what, where: single time zone, Beijing, east, far west

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 (China, country, clock, Sun), 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	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zone	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zone	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zone	compound
6	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 UTC	punct
8	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 zone	appos
9	+	+	SYM	_	10 8	advmod
10	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 UTC	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 country	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wide	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	23 wide	advmod
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 wide	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wide	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wide	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 wide	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 wide	advmod
23	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 uses	advcl
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 zones	case
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 zones	nummod
26	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 zones	amod
27	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wide	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 follows	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clock	det
30	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 follows	nsubj
31	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	parataxis
32	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 follows	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 east	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 east	det
35	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 follows	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 clock	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	44 rises	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 west	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 west	det
40	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 west	amod
41	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rises	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Sun	det
43	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 rises	nsubj
44	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 follows	conj
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 late	advmod
46	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 rises	advmod
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 clock	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 clock	det
49	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rises	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present	China	a single time zone		for the whole country	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality
2	is	present	country			as five standard zones; about, wide property	tree rules
3	follow	present	the clock	Beijing	the east		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beijing=Theme in east=Trajectory
4	rise	present	the Sun		the far west	by the clock; late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location

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:9.

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 ×4. 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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