--- title: Many countries move their clocks forward an hour in summer, and the… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics description: Many countries move their clocks forward an hour in summer, and the UK changes on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October; near the equator days and nights stay about 12 hours long all year, so most countries there never change their clocks. 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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 (Many countries, UK, days, most countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.lesson:15 # text = Many countries move their clocks forward an hour in summer, and the UK changes on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October; near the equator days and nights stay about 12 hours long all year, so most countries there never change their clocks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.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 ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 near near ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 32 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 44 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 45 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 46 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:advmod 47 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Many countries | partners's clocks | | | hour; summer | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clock=Theme | | 2 | **change** | present | the UK | | | | sunday | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | present | days and nights | | | the equator | year | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near equator=Location | | 4 | **not** **change** | present | most countries | partners's clocks | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | 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:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.lesson:15`. **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 ×2. **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: [Time zones and the date line, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/13/) - next →: [Time zones and the date line, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/)