Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 13
In January Sydney is 11 hours ahead of London, so 9 am in London is 8 pm in Sydney.
Who acts: Sydney, 9 · What happens: be · To what, where: 11 hours, 8, Sydney
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 (Sydney, 9), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 January | case |
| 2 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hours | obl |
| 3 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hours | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hours | cop |
| 5 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hours | nummod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 8 | parataxis |
| 7 | ahead | ahead | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hours | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 9 | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 9 | advmod |
| 12 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 8 | nsubj |
| 13 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 9 | flat |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 London | case |
| 15 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 9 | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 8 | cop |
| 17 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 18 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Sydney | case |
| 20 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 8 | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 8 | 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 | is a | present | Sydney | 11 hours | january | ahead London | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | 9 in London | 8 | Sydney | pm 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:world:120-time-zones.lesson:13.
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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