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title: The night the clocks go back has 25 hours, and the night they go for… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: The night the clocks go back has 25 hours, and the night they go forward has 23. Who acts: clocks, night. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 17

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The night the clocks go back has 25 hours, and the night they go forward has 23.

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**Who acts:** clocks, night · **What happens:** go back, have, go · **To what, where:** night, 23

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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, night), 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:17
# text = The night the clocks go back has 25 hours, and the night they go forward has 23.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
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	2	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 back** | present | the clocks | the night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present | clocks *= clock* | the night *not said here* |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the night | 23 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 23=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:17`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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