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title: Dubai is 4 hours ahead of Britain in winter, so 6 pm in Manchester i… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dubai is 4 hours ahead of Britain in winter, so 6 pm in Manchester is 10 pm in Dubai. Who acts: Dubai, 6 pm. 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 claus
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# Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 16

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Dubai is 4 hours ahead of Britain in winter, so 6 pm in Manchester is 10 pm in Dubai.

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**Who acts:** Dubai, 6 pm · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 10

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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 (Dubai, 6 pm), 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:16
# text = Dubai is 4 hours ahead of Britain in winter, so 6 pm in Manchester is 10 pm in Dubai.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
18	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Dubai |  |  |  | hour; winter | of Britain; ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 6 pm in Manchester | 10 |  |  |  | pm in Dubai *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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