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title: Shanghai is 8 hours ahead of London in winter, so a London morning i… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: Shanghai is 8 hours ahead of London in winter, so a London morning is a Shanghai evening. Who acts: Shanghai, London morning. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 30

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Shanghai is 8 hours ahead of London in winter, so a London morning is a Shanghai evening.

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**Who acts:** Shanghai, London morning · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Shanghai evening

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday 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 (Shanghai, London morning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:30
# text = Shanghai is 8 hours ahead of London in winter, so a London morning is a Shanghai evening.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson
# annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Shanghai	Shanghai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Shanghai	Shanghai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Shanghai |  |  |  | hour; winter | of London; ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a London morning | a Shanghai evening |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:30`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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