Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 21
If everyone used London time, noon in Sydney would come in the middle of the night.
Who acts: everyone, noon · What happens: use, come · To what, where: middle
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 (everyone, noon), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 used | mark |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 7 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Sydney | case |
| 9 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 noon | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | 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 | use a condition, not said to happen | past | everyone | time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | would | noon in Sydney | the middle of the night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
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:21.
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.
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