--- title: "Spring forward, fall back" helps you remember which way the clocks… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics description: "Spring forward, fall back" helps you remember which way the clocks go; "fall" is the American word for autumn. Who acts: Spring, you, clocks, fall. 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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 (Spring, you, clocks, fall), 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:16 # text = "Spring forward, fall back" helps you remember which way the clocks go; "fall" is the American word for autumn. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 forward forward ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 12 det _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Spring *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Spring | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you | which way | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **go** | present | the clocks | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | fall | the American word | | | autumn | | tree rules | 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:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The date line and summer time: clocks…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/15/) - next →: [The date line and summer time: clocks…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/)