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title: In Britain the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1 am on the last Sunday o… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1 am on the last Sunday of March and back 1 hour at 2 am on the last Sunday of October. Who acts: clocks. 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 dependenc
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 15

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In Britain the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1 am on the last Sunday of March and back 1 hour at 2 am on the last Sunday of October.

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**Who acts:** clocks · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Britain

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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 (clocks), 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:15
# text = In Britain the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1 am on the last Sunday of March and back 1 hour at 2 am on the last Sunday of October.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | present | the clocks |  |  | Britain | hour; sunday | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in britain=Location |

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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: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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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