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title: For daylight saving time clocks go forward one hour in spring and ba… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: For daylight saving time clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back». Who acts: clocks. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 6

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For daylight saving time clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back».

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**Who acts:** clocks · **What happens:** go, fall back · **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 (clocks), 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:6
# text = For daylight saving time clocks go forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn: «spring forward, fall back».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
20	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | present | clocks |  |  |  | hour; spring; time | forward *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fall back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | spring |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-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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