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title: In the UK the clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October,… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October, which in 2026 is 25 October; it brings darker afternoons, but winter as weather scientists count it starts on 1 December. Who acts: clocks, last Sunday, UK, weather scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays»
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 20

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In the UK the clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October, which in 2026 is 25 October; it brings darker afternoons, but winter as weather scientists count it starts on 1 December.

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**Who acts:** clocks, last Sunday, UK, weather scientists · **What happens:** go back, be, bring, count, start · **To what, where:** UK, 25, 2026, winter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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, last Sunday, UK, weather scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:20
# text = In the UK the clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October, which in 2026 is 25 October; it brings darker afternoons, but winter as weather scientists count it starts on 1 December.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
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	back	back	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	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	afternoons	afternoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	_	33	compound	_	_
33	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 back** | present | the clocks |  |  | the UK | hour; sunday |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the last Sunday of October | 25 |  | 2026 | october |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | present | UK |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | present | weather scientists | winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent winter=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **start** | present | UK |  |  |  | december |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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.

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