Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 2
The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, which is 15 degrees every hour, so time zones are roughly 15-degree slices.
Who acts: Earth, 24 hours, time zones · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: 360 degrees, 15 degrees, degree slices
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, 24 hours, time zones), 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 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 360 | 360 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 degrees | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 degrees | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 degrees | cop |
| 12 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 degrees | nummod |
| 13 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hours | acl:relcl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hour | det |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 degrees | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slices | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 slices | advmod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 zones | compound |
| 19 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 slices | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 slices | cop |
| 21 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 25 slices | advmod |
| 22 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 degree | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 15 | punct |
| 24 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slices | compound |
| 25 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | 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 | turn | present | the Earth | 360 degrees | hour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | 24 hours | 15 degrees | hour | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | time zones | degree slices | roughly 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:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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