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title: The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so if your clock still shows Lon… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so if your clock still shows London time and the Sun is highest at 2 pm, you are 30 degrees west of London. Who acts: Earth, clock, Sun, you. A sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world course of Mova's p
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# Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 4

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The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so if your clock still shows London time and the Sun is highest at 2 pm, you are 30 degrees west of London.

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**Who acts:** Earth, clock, Sun, you · **What happens:** turn, show, be · **To what, where:** 15 degrees, 2, 30 degrees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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 (Earth, clock, Sun, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:4
# text = The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so if your clock still shows London time and the Sun is highest at 2 pm, you are 30 degrees west of London.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	highest	highest	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
30	west	west	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **turn** | present | the Earth | 15 degrees |  |  | hour |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | your clock |  |  |  | still; time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Sun |  |  | 2  pm |  | highest *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | you | 30 degrees |  |  |  | west *property* | 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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.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, 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/).

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