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title: In 1337, when EU5 starts, every town simply kept its own sun time, a… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1337, when EU5 starts, every town simply kept its own sun time, and nobody minded because no horse or ship was fast enough for a few minutes to matter. Who acts: EU5, town, nobody, horse. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with
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# Time zones and the date line, sentence 1

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In 1337, when EU5 starts, every town simply kept its own sun time, and nobody minded because no horse or ship was fast enough for a few minutes to matter.

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**Who acts:** EU5, town, nobody, horse · **What happens:** start, keep, mind, be, matter · **To what, where:** 1337

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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 (EU5, town, nobody, horse), 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:1
# text = In 1337, when EU5 starts, every town simply kept its own sun time, and nobody minded because no horse or ship was fast enough for a few minutes to matter.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	minded	mind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | EU5 |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | past | every town |  |  | 1337 | time | simply *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1337=Location |
| 3 | **mind** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | no horse or ship |  |  |  | minute | enough, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **matter** | to-infinitive | no horse or ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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