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description: Hawaii is almost a whole day behind New Zealand, because the International Date Line lies between them; crossing that line going east, the date goes back one day. Who acts: Hawaii, International Date Line, date. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» 
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# Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 20

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Hawaii is almost a whole day behind New Zealand, because the International Date Line lies between them; crossing that line going east, the date goes back one day.

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**Who acts:** Hawaii, International Date Line, date · **What happens:** be, lie, cross, go, go back · **To what, where:** whole day, New Zealand, line

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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 (Hawaii, International Date Line, date), 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:20
# text = Hawaii is almost a whole day behind New Zealand, because the International Date Line lies between them; crossing that line going east, the date goes back one day.
# 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 ×2
1	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Date	date	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	Line	line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
24	east	east	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | Hawaii | a whole day |  | New Zealand |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the International Date Line |  |  |  |  | between zones *= zone* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location |
| 3 | **cross** | gerund |  | that line |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | east *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go back** | present | the date |  |  |  | day |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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 ×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/).

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