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title: Kiribati moved the date line in 1995 so all its islands share the sa… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiribati moved the date line in 1995 so all its islands share the same date, and its Line Islands at UTC+14 are among the first places on Earth to start each new day. Who acts: Kiribati, islands. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school
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# Time zones and the date line, sentence 12

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Kiribati moved the date line in 1995 so all its islands share the same date, and its Line Islands at UTC+14 are among the first places on Earth to start each new day.

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**Who acts:** Kiribati, islands · **What happens:** move, share, be, start · **To what, where:** date line, 1995, same date, Earth

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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 (Kiribati, islands), 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:12
# text = Kiribati moved the date line in 1995 so all its islands share the same date, and its Line Islands at UTC+14 are among the first places on Earth to start each new day.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	UTC	UTC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
35	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **move** | past | Kiribati | the date line |  | 1995 |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | present | Line's islands | the same date and Line's Line |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Islands at UTC  14 |  |  | Earth |  | among the first places | tree rules |
| 4 | **start** | to-infinitive | Kiribati *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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