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title: The 48 neighbouring US states use four main time zones, Eastern (wit… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: The 48 neighbouring US states use four main time zones, Eastern (with New York), Central, Mountain and Pacific (with Los Angeles), each one hour behind the last, so Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and Alaska and Hawaii have their own. Who acts: 48 neighbouring US states, Los, Alaska. A sente
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# Time zones and the date line, sentence 8

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The 48 neighbouring US states use four main time zones, Eastern (with New York), Central, Mountain and Pacific (with Los Angeles), each one hour behind the last, so Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and Alaska and Hawaii have their own.

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**Who acts:** 48 neighbouring US states, Los, Alaska · **What happens:** neighbour, use, be, have · **To what, where:** four main time zones, 3 hours, New York, own

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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 (48 neighbouring US states, Los, Alaska), 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:8
# text = The 48 neighbouring US states use four main time zones, Eastern (with New York), Central, Mountain and Pacific (with Los Angeles), each one hour behind the last, so Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and Alaska and Hawaii have their own.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl
4	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Eastern	Eastern	PROPN	NNP	_	10	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:appos|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
38	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	advcl	_	_
43	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	obj	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | the 48 neighbouring US states | four main time zones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Los | 3 hours |  | New York |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | Alaska and Hawaii | Alaska's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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