Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 3

Borders make them wiggly, some places such as India use half-hours, and China uses one zone for the whole wide country, so in its far west the Sun can rise at 9 or 10 am by the clock.

Who acts: Borders, places, China, Sun · What happens: make, use, rise · To what, where: zones, one zone, west

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 (Borders, places, China, Sun), 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	Borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 places	det
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	nsubj
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 India	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 places	nmod
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	parataxis
12	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 hours	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 uses	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 uses	cc
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 uses	nsubj
18	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 zone	nummod
20	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uses	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 country	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 country	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 country	amod
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 country	amod
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uses	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rise	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	35 rise	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 west	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 west	nmod:poss
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 west	advmod
31	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rise	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sun	det
33	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 rise	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 rise	aux
35	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	parataxis
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 9	case
37	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 rise	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 10	cc
39	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 9	conj
40	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 9	nmod:unmarked
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 clock	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 clock	det
43	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 9	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Borders	zones = zone			wiggly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	use	present	some places such India			hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	present	China	one zone			for the whole wide country	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality
4	rise	can	the Sun		country's west		at 9 am by the clock	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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