--- title: The country is so wide that it has several time zones: when it is 9… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics description: The country is so wide that it has several time zones: when it is 9 o'clock in the morning in New York, it is only 6 o'clock in Los Angeles, because the Sun rises in the east first. Who acts: country, Sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:044-the-usa-and-its-states.lesson:4 # text = The country is so wide that it has several time zones: when it is 9 o'clock in the morning in New York, it is only 6 o'clock in Los Angeles, because the Sun rises in the east first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 044-the-usa-and-its-states.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 23 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Los Los PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 Angeles Angeles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the country | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | country | several time zones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | country | 9 o'clock | | | morning | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | country | 6 o'clock | | Los | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rise** | present | the Sun | | | the east | | first *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location | 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:044-the-usa-and-its-states.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 ×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: [The United States and its states, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/3/) - next →: [The United States and its states, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/)