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title: In January, when Jake has breakfast at 9 am in London, his cousin in… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics
description: In January, when Jake has breakfast at 9 am in London, his cousin in Sydney is brushing her teeth for bed at 8 pm, 11 hours ahead. Who acts: Jake, cousin. 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 dep
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# Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 5

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In January, when Jake has breakfast at 9 am in London, his cousin in Sydney is brushing her teeth for bed at 8 pm, 11 hours ahead.

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**Who acts:** Jake, cousin · **What happens:** have, brush · **To what, where:** breakfast, London, teeth, 8

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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 (Jake, cousin), 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:5
# text = In January, when Jake has breakfast at 9 am in London, his cousin in Sydney is brushing her teeth for bed at 8 pm, 11 hours ahead.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
26	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
30	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Jake | breakfast |  | London | january |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
| 2 | **brush** | present · progressive | Jake's cousin in Sydney | cousin's teeth |  | 8  pm |  | for bed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme at 8=Destination |

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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:5`.

**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/).

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