--- title: Trains changed that: a timetable needs one clock, so British railway… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics description: Trains changed that: a timetable needs one clock, so British railways took London time in the 1840s, and the world later split into time zones counted from UTC. Who acts: Trains, timetable, British railways, world. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mo --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Time zones and the date line, sentence 2 Trains changed that: a timetable needs one clock, so British railways took London time in the 1840s, and the world later split into time zones counted from UTC. **Who acts:** Trains, timetable, British railways, world · **What happens:** change, need, take, split, count · **To what, where:** that, one clock, 1840s, time zones, UTC 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 (Trains, timetable, British railways, world), 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:2 # text = Trains changed that: a timetable needs one clock, so British railways took London time in the 1840s, and the world later split into time zones counted from UTC. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj 4 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 timetable timetable NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 UTC UTC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past | Trains | that | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | a timetable | one clock | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clock=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | British railways | | | the 1840s | time | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1840=Location | | 4 | **split** | past | the world | | | | | into time zones *result*; late *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into zone=Result | | 5 | **count** | participle | | time zones *not said here* | | UTC | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [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/) - next →: [Time zones and the date line, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/)