--- title: Places to the east are ahead of you in time, and places to the west… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: Places to the east are ahead of you in time, and places to the west are behind. Who acts: Places. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/12/) [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/) / 12 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 12 Places to the east are ahead of you in time, and places to the west are behind. **Who acts:** Places · **What happens:** be 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 (Places), 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:12 # text = Places to the east are ahead of you in time, and places to the west are behind. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 behind behind ADV RB _ 6 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Places to the east | | | | time | of you; ahead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | places to the west | | | | | behind *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:12`. **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 ×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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/11/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)