--- title: The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, which is 15 degrees every h… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, which is 15 degrees every hour, so time zones are roughly 15 degrees wide and there are about 24 main ones. Who acts: Earth, 24 hours, time zones, 24 main ones. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» of the wor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/11/) [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/) / 11 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 11 The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, which is 15 degrees every hour, so time zones are roughly 15 degrees wide and there are about 24 main ones. **Who acts:** Earth, 24 hours, time zones, 24 main ones · **What happens:** turn, be, be about · **To what, where:** 360 degrees, 15 degrees 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, 24 hours, time zones, 24 main ones), 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:11 # text = The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, which is 15 degrees every hour, so time zones are roughly 15 degrees wide and there are about 24 main ones. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 360 360 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 24 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 there there PRON EX _ 27 expl _ _ 27 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | the Earth | 360 degrees | | | hour | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | 24 hours | 15 degrees | | | hour | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | time zones | 15 degrees | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be about** | present | 24 main ones | | | there | | | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/10/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)