Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 20

Hawaii is almost a whole day behind New Zealand, because the International Date Line lies between them; crossing that line going east, the date goes back one day.

Who acts: Hawaii, International Date Line, date · What happens: be, lie, cross, go, go back · To what, where: whole day, New Zealand, line

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 (Hawaii, International Date Line, date), 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	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 day	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 Zealand	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zealand	compound
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lies	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 lies	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Line	det
13	International	international	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Line	amod
14	Date	date	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Line	compound
15	Line	line	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lies	nsubj
16	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 day	advcl
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lies	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 crossing	punct
20	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 day	parataxis
21	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	22 line	det
22	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crossing	obj
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 crossing	advcl
24	east	east	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 date	det
27	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	nsubj
28	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 day	parataxis
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 goes	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 day	nummod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hawaii	a whole day	New Zealand		almost property	tree rules
2	lie	present	the International Date Line				between zones = zone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location
3	cross	gerund		that line				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
4	go	gerund					east property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go back	present	the date			day		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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:20.

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, R8-pos-agree ×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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