--- title: As the Earth spins, morning sweeps round the planet, so it cannot be… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: As the Earth spins, morning sweeps round the planet, so it cannot be the same clock time everywhere and still be light at noon. Who acts: Earth, morning. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/0/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/) / 0 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 0 As the Earth spins, morning sweeps round the planet, so it cannot be the same clock time everywhere and still be light at noon. **Who acts:** Earth, morning · **What happens:** spin, sweep, not be, be · **To what, where:** planet, same clock time This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» of the world 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 (Earth, morning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:120-time-zones.lesson:0 # text = As the Earth spins, morning sweeps round the planet, so it cannot be the same clock time everywhere and still be light at noon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 120-time-zones.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 ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sweeps sweep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 21 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sweep** | present | morning | | | the planet | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round planet=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **is a** | can | Earth | the same clock time | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | Earth *not said here* | | | | still; noon | everywhere, light *property* | tree rules | 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:world:120-time-zones.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/25/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)