--- title: To avoid mix-ups, pilots, ships, scientists and games use one world… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d… · tree and pragmatics description: To avoid mix-ups, pilots, ships, scientists and games use one world time, UTC, almost the same as Greenwich Mean Time, and sensible people say "6 pm your time" or "6 pm my time". Who acts: scientists, sensible people. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in Lo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/9/) [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/) / 9 # Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London, sentence 9 To avoid mix-ups, pilots, ships, scientists and games use one world time, UTC, almost the same as Greenwich Mean Time, and sensible people say "6 pm your time" or "6 pm my time". **Who acts:** scientists, sensible people · **What happens:** avoid, use, say · **To what, where:** mix ups · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scientists, sensible people), 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:9 # text = To avoid mix-ups, pilots, ships, scientists and games use one world time, UTC, almost the same as Greenwich Mean Time, and sensible people say "6 pm your time" or "6 pm my time". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 3 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 pilots pilot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 UTC UTC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 Mean Mean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Time Time PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 41 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 42 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:unmarked _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | scientists and games *not said here* | mix ups and pilots and ships | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent up=Location | | 2 | **use** | present | scientists and games | | | | time | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sensible people | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/8/) - next →: [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/120-time-zones/)