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title: The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour, so a difference… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour, so a difference in time shows a difference in longitude; if the home clock is later than your local noon, you are west of home. Who acts: Earth, difference, home clock. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 
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# Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 25

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The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour, so a difference in time shows a difference in longitude; if the home clock is later than your local noon, you are west of home.

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**Who acts:** Earth, difference, home clock · **What happens:** turn, show, be · **To what, where:** 15 degrees, difference

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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, difference, home clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:25
# text = The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour, so a difference in time shows a difference in longitude; if the home clock is later than your local noon, you are west of home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 098-explorers-mapping-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): R5-strong ×3
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	_	_
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	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	west	west	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **turn** | present | the Earth | 15 degrees of longitude |  |  | hour |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | a difference in time | a difference |  |  |  | in longitude | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent difference=Patient in longitude=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | noon | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the home clock |  |  |  |  | of home; 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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**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 ×3. **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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