--- title: Borders make them wiggly, some places such as India use half-hours,… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: Borders make them wiggly, some places such as India use half-hours, and China uses one zone for the whole wide country, so in its far west the Sun can rise at 9 or 10 am by the clock. Who acts: Borders, places, China, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/3/) [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/) / 3 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 3 Borders make them wiggly, some places such as India use half-hours, and China uses one zone for the whole wide country, so in its far west the Sun can rise at 9 or 10 am by the clock. **Who acts:** Borders, places, China, Sun · **What happens:** make, use, rise · **To what, where:** zones, one zone, west 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 (Borders, places, China, Sun), 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:3 # text = Borders make them wiggly, some places such as India use half-hours, and China uses one zone for the whole wide country, so in its far west the Sun can rise at 9 or 10 am by the clock. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 wiggly wiggly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 8 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 14 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 obl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=37:cc 39 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 conj _ _ 40 am a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:unmarked _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Borders | zones *= zone* | | | | wiggly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 2 | **use** | present | some places such India | | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | present | China | one zone | | | | for the whole wide country | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent zone=Theme for country=Eventuality | | 4 | **rise** | can | the Sun | | | country's west | | at 9 am by the clock | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/2/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)