The World Cup, sentence 9
Most 2026 matches were played in North American time zones, so a 6 pm kick-off in Los Angeles was 2 am in the UK.
Who acts: kick off · What happens: play, be · To what, where: Most 2026 matches, North American time zones, 2, UK
This is a sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» of the medicine 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 (kick off), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 matches | amod |
| 2 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 matches | nummod |
| 3 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | aux:pass |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 zones | case |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 zones | compound |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 zones | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 zones | compound |
| 10 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 2 | punct |
| 12 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 23 2 | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 off | det |
| 14 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 kick | nummod |
| 15 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 off | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 off | punct |
| 18 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 2 | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Angeles | case |
| 20 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Angeles | compound |
| 21 | Angeles | Angeles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 off | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 2 | cop |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 played | conj |
| 24 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 2 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 UK | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 UK | det |
| 27 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 2 | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · passive | Most 2026 matches | North American time zones | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a kick off in Los Angeles | 2 | the UK | am nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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:medicine:061-the-world-cup.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): R6-punct-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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