Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 4
Places to the east are ahead (later in the day); places to the west are behind.
Who acts: Places · What happens: be
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 (Places), 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 | Places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ahead | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 east | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 east | det |
| 4 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Places | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ahead | cop |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 later | punct |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 ahead | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 later | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 later | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 places | punct |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 behind | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 west | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 west | det |
| 17 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 places | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 behind | cop |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 ahead | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ahead | 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 | present | Places to the east | ahead, late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | places to the west | behind 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:4.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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