--- title: China uses a single time zone, UTC+8, for the whole country, even th… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics description: China uses a single time zone, UTC+8, for the whole country, even though it is about as wide as five standard zones; the clock follows Beijing in the east, so in the far west the Sun rises very late by the clock. Who acts: China, country, clock, Sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (China, country, clock, Sun), 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:9 # text = China uses a single time zone, UTC+8, for the whole country, even though it is about as wide as five standard zones; the clock follows Beijing in the east, so in the far west the Sun rises very late by the clock. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 UTC UTC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 + + SYM SYM _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 though though SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 32 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 41 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 45 very very ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 47 by by ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 . . 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 | **use** | present | China | a single time zone | | | | for the whole country | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | country | | | | | as five standard zones; about, wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | present | the clock | Beijing | | the east | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beijing=Theme in east=Trajectory | | 4 | **rise** | present | the Sun | | | the far west | | by the clock; late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/8/) - next →: [Time zones and the date line, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/)