Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 25

The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour, so a difference in time shows a difference in longitude; if the home clock is later than your local noon, you are west of home.

Who acts: Earth, difference, home clock · What happens: turn, show, be · To what, where: 15 degrees, difference

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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, difference, home clock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turns	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 longitude	case
7	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shows	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 shows	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 difference	det
13	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shows	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 difference	nmod
16	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turns	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 difference	det
18	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shows	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 longitude	case
20	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 difference	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 home	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 home	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clock	det
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clock	compound
25	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 home	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 later	cop
27	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 home	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 noon	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 noon	nmod:poss
30	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 noon	amod
31	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 later	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 noon	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 home	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 home	cop
35	west	west	ADV	_	37 home	advmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 home	case
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Earth	15 degrees of longitude	hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme
2	show	present	a difference in time	a difference		in longitude	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent difference=Patient in longitude=Topic
3	is	present			noon	late property	tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the home clock			of home; west 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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:25.

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 ×3. 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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