Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 0
As the Earth spins, morning sweeps round the planet, so it cannot be the same clock time everywhere and still be light at noon.
Who acts: Earth, morning · What happens: spin, sweep, not be, be · To what, where: planet, same clock time
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» of the world 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 (Earth, morning), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spins | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Earth | det |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spins | nsubj |
| 4 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sweeps | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spins | punct |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweeps | nsubj |
| 7 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 planet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 planet | det |
| 10 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweeps | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 time | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 time | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 time | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 19 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | compound |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweeps | advcl |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 light | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 light | cc |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 light | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 light | cop |
| 25 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 noon | case |
| 27 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | the Earth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sweep | present | morning | the planet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round planet=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not is a | can | Earth | the same clock time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | Earth not said here | still; noon | everywhere, light property | 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:world:120-time-zones.lesson:0.
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 ×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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