Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 12
Places to the east are ahead of you in time, and places to the west are behind.
Who acts: Places · What happens: be
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 (Places), 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 | Places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ahead | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 east | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 east | det |
| 4 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Places | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ahead | cop |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ahead | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ahead | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 behind | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 behind | cc |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 behind | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 west | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 west | det |
| 16 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 places | nmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 behind | cop |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 ahead | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ahead | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Places to the east | time | of you; ahead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | places to the west | behind 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:12.
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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