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title: Somewhere the days must change, and that seam is the International D… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere the days must change, and that seam is the International Date Line in the Pacific: cross it westwards and you jump a whole day ahead. Who acts: days, seam, you. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Time zones and the date line, sentence 3

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Somewhere the days must change, and that seam is the International Date Line in the Pacific: cross it westwards and you jump a whole day ahead.

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**Who acts:** days, seam, you · **What happens:** change, be, cross, jump · **To what, where:** International Date Line, Pacific, seam

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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 (days, seam, you), 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:3
# text = Somewhere the days must change, and that seam is the International Date Line in the Pacific: cross it westwards and you jump a whole day ahead.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	seam	seam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Date	date	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	westwards	westward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | must | the days |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that seam | the International Date Line |  | the Pacific |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cross** | infinitive |  | seam |  |  |  | westward *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **jump** | present | you |  |  |  | day | ahead *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`.

**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): 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/).

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