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title: With daylight saving time, clocks go forward one hour in spring and… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: With daylight saving time, clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back»; because the seasons are opposite south of the equator, Australia and New Zealand change on different dates from the USA and the UK. Who acts: daylight, clocks, seasons, Australia
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 1

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With daylight saving time, clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back»; because the seasons are opposite south of the equator, Australia and New Zealand change on different dates from the USA and the UK.

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**Who acts:** daylight, clocks, seasons, Australia · **What happens:** save, go, fall back, be, change · **To what, where:** opposite south, different dates · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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 (daylight, clocks, seasons, Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:1
# text = With daylight saving time, clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back»; because the seasons are opposite south of the equator, Australia and New Zealand change on different dates from the USA and the UK.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
38	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc
40	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	41	flat	_	_
41	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **save** | gerund | daylight *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | clocks |  |  |  | hour; spring | with daylight; forward *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fall back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | spring |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the seasons | opposite south |  |  |  | of the equator | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | present | Australia and New Zealand |  |  | different dates from the USA and the UK |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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