--- title: The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight. Who acts: Earth, noon. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Time zones and the date line](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/) / 0 # Time zones and the date line, sentence 0 The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight. **Who acts:** Earth, noon · **What happens:** turn, slide · **To what, where:** 360 degrees, planet This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.lesson:0 # text = The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 360 360 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 westwards westward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 around around ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 spotlight spotlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | the Earth | 360 degrees and 15 degrees a hour | | | hour | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | | 2 | **slide** | present | noon | | | the planet | | like a spotlight; westward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around planet=Trajectory | 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](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:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/16/) - next →: [Time zones and the date line, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/)