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title: Daily rhythms differ too: in Spain dinner is often at half nine at n… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Daily rhythms differ too: in Spain dinner is often at half nine at night, while many English families eat at half five or six. Who acts: Daily rhythms, many English families. A sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's prim
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# Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 3

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Daily rhythms differ too: in Spain dinner is often at half nine at night, while many English families eat at half five or six.

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**Who acts:** Daily rhythms, many English families · **What happens:** differ, be, eat · **To what, where:** half nine, five

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (Daily rhythms, many English families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:3
# text = Daily rhythms differ too: in Spain dinner is often at half nine at night, while many English families eat at half five or six.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 129-being-on-time-around-the-world.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rhythms	rhythm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind
13	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **differ** | present | Daily rhythms |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | half nine | night | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | many English families |  |  | half five |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.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): 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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