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title: France uses 12 time zones, more than any other country, if its overs… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: France uses 12 time zones, more than any other country, if its overseas territories are counted. Who acts: France. 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 every clause.
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# Time zones and the date line, sentence 16

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France uses 12 time zones, more than any other country, if its overseas territories are counted.

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**Who acts:** France · **What happens:** use, count · **To what, where:** 12 time zones, overseas territories

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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 (France), 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:16
# text = France uses 12 time zones, more than any other country, if its overseas territories are counted.
# 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): no change
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	overseas	overseas	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **use** | present | France | 12 time zones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |
| 2 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | country's overseas territories |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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): no change. **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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