Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 9
To avoid mix-ups, pilots, ships, scientists and games use one world time, UTC, almost the same as Greenwich Mean Time, and sensible people say "6 pm your time" or "6 pm my time".
Who acts: scientists, sensible people · What happens: avoid, use, say · To what, where: mix ups · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scientists, sensible people), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 avoid | mark |
| 2 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 use | advcl |
| 3 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ups | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mix | punct |
| 5 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 avoid | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pilots | punct |
| 7 | pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ups | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ships | punct |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ups | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scientists | punct |
| 11 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 games | cc |
| 13 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scientists | conj |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 time | nummod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 use | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 UTC | punct |
| 19 | UTC | UTC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 time | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 same | punct |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 same | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | parataxis |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Time | case |
| 25 | Greenwich | Greenwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Time | compound |
| 26 | Mean | Mean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Time | compound |
| 27 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 same | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 say | cc |
| 30 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 people | amod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 say | nsubj |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 6 | punct |
| 34 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 time | nummod |
| 35 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 time | nmod:poss |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 say | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 time | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 time | cc |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 time | punct |
| 41 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 time | nummod |
| 42 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 time | nmod:poss |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 time | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 time | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | to-infinitive | scientists and games not said here | mix ups and pilots and ships | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent up=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | present | scientists and games | time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | sensible people | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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, R6-punct-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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