--- title: India is 5 and a half hours ahead of London in winter, and China use… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: India is 5 and a half hours ahead of London in winter, and China uses one time zone for the whole country. Who acts: India, China. 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 pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/17/) [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/) / 17 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 17 India is 5 and a half hours ahead of London in winter, and China uses one time zone for the whole country. **Who acts:** India, China · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** 5, one time zone 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 (India, China), 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:17 # text = India is 5 and a half hours ahead of London in winter, and China uses one time zone for the whole country. # 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 ×2 1 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 compound _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 8 ahead ahead ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is a** | present | India | 5 | | | winter | ahead London | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | China | one time zone | | | | for the whole country | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality | 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:17`. **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 ×2. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/16/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)