Time zones and the calendar, sentence 0

Because the Earth turns, noon comes to different places at different times: when it is noon in London, it is already evening in China and still early morning in New York.

Who acts: Earth, noon · What happens: turn, come, be · To what, where: different places, noon, London, evening, China

This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» 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 (Earth, 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	Because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	4 turns	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 comes	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 places	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 comes	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 times	case
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 comes	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 noon	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 noon	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 noon	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 noon	cop
18	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 London	case
20	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 noon	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 evening	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 evening	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 evening	cop
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 evening	advmod
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 noon	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 China	case
27	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 evening	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 morning	cc
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 morning	advmod
30	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 morning	amod
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 evening	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 York	case
33	New	New	PROPN	_	34 York	compound
34	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 morning	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	present	the Earth				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	noon		different places	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	Earth	noon and evening and early morning in New York	London		tree rules
4	is a	present	Earth	evening and early morning in New York	China		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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:0.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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