Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 17
India is 5 and a half hours ahead of London in winter, and China uses one time zone for the whole country.
Who acts: India, China · What happens: be, use · To what, where: 5, one time zone
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 (India, China), 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 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 5 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 5 | cop |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 London | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 half | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 hours | compound |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ahead | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ahead | ahead | ADP | _ | 10 London | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 London | case |
| 10 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 5 | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 5 | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uses | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uses | cc |
| 15 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 uses | nsubj |
| 16 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 5 | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 zone | nummod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 zone | compound |
| 19 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uses | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 country | amod |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 zone | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 5 | 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 | India | 5 | winter | ahead London | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use | present | China | one time zone | for the whole country | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality |
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:17.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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