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title: Somewhere the date has to change, or a traveller going east round th… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere the date has to change, or a traveller going east round the world would keep adding hours forever. Who acts: date, traveller. A sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 0

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Somewhere the date has to change, or a traveller going east round the world would keep adding hours forever.

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**Who acts:** date, traveller · **What happens:** have, change, go, keep, add · **To what, where:** world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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 (date, traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:0
# text = Somewhere the date has to change, or a traveller going east round the world would keep adding hours forever.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 121-date-line-and-summer-time.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	east	east	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | the date |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | the date *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | a traveller *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | east *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round world=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **keep** | would | a traveller |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | a traveller *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | forever *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, 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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