--- title: The world is cut into time zones, each with its own clock time, so t… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: The world is cut into time zones, each with its own clock time, so that noon stays near the middle of the day wherever you are. Who acts: noon, you. 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 dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/1/) [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/) / 1 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 1 The world is cut into time zones, each with its own clock time, so that noon stays near the middle of the day wherever you are. **Who acts:** noon, you · **What happens:** cut, stay, be · **To what, where:** world, time zones, middle 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 (noon, you), 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:1 # text = The world is cut into time zones, each with its own clock time, so that noon stays near the middle of the day wherever you are. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 each each PRON DT PronType=Tot 7 appos _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present · passive | | the world | | time zones | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into zone=Product | | 2 | **stay** | present | that noon | | | the middle of the day | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near middle=Location | | 3 | **does** | present | you | | | | | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:1`. **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): no change. **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: why it's night in Sydney w…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/0/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)