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title: So the world is divided into time zones, roughly 24 of them, one for… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: So the world is divided into time zones, roughly 24 of them, one for each hour of the Earth's turn; going east, the clocks are usually one hour later in each new zone. Who acts: clocks. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Time zones and the calendar, sentence 1

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So the world is divided into time zones, roughly 24 of them, one for each hour of the Earth's turn; going east, the clocks are usually one hour later in each new zone.

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**Who acts:** clocks · **What happens:** divide, go, be · **To what, where:** world, time zones, one hour, new zone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» 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 (clocks), 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:1
# text = So the world is divided into time zones, roughly 24 of them, one for each hour of the Earth's turn; going east, the clocks are usually one hour later in each new zone.
# 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 ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
26	east	east	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
34	later	later	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **divide** | present · passive |  | the world |  | time zones |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the clocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | east *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the clocks | one hour |  | each new zone |  |  | 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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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