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title: Kiritimati, an island in Kiribati, is 14 hours ahead of London, so w… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiritimati, an island in Kiribati, is 14 hours ahead of London, so when it hits midnight there, it's still 10 am on 31 December in London. Who acts: Kiritimati, date. A sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school 
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 4

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Kiritimati, an island in Kiribati, is 14 hours ahead of London, so when it hits midnight there, it's still 10 am on 31 December in London.

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**Who acts:** Kiritimati, date · **What happens:** be, hit · **To what, where:** 14 hours, London, 10

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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 (Kiritimati, date), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:4
# text = Kiritimati, an island in Kiribati, is 14 hours ahead of London, so when it hits midnight there, it's still 10 am on 31 December in London.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 121-date-line-and-summer-time.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	Kiritimati	Kiritimati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
11	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	parataxis	_	_
26	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is a** | present | Kiritimati | 14 hours |  |  |  | ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | present | date |  |  | London; there | midnight |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | date | 10 |  |  | still; december | am *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:4`.

**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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