--- title: Because the Earth turns, noon comes to different places at different… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics description: Because the Earth turns, noon comes to different places at different times: when it is noon in London, it is already evening in China and still early morning in New York. Who acts: Earth, noon. 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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 (Earth, noon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:0 # text = Because the Earth turns, noon comes to different places at different times: when it is noon in London, it is already evening in China and still early morning in New York. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 already already ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 30 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 31 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 New New PROPN NNP _ 34 compound _ _ 34 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **turn** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present | noon | | | different places | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | Earth | noon and evening and early morning in New York | | London | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Earth | evening and early morning in New York | | China | | | tree rules | 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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Eclipses, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/16/) - next →: [Time zones and the calendar, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/)