Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 1
The world is cut into time zones, each with its own clock time, so that noon stays near the middle of the day wherever you are.
Who acts: noon, you · What happens: cut, stay, be · To what, where: world, time zones, middle
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 (noon, 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 | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 zones | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 zones | compound |
| 7 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 each | punct |
| 9 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Tot | 7 zones | appos |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | compound |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 each | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stays | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 stays | mark |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 noon | det |
| 18 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stays | nsubj |
| 19 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | advcl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stays | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 middle | nmod |
| 26 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 are | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 are | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stays | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | the world | time zones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into zone=Product | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | that noon | the middle of the day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | does | present | you | wherever property | vn exist-47.1 «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:world:120-time-zones.lesson:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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