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title: The USA moves its clocks forward on the second Sunday of March, so f… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: The USA moves its clocks forward on the second Sunday of March, so for 2 or 3 weeks New York is 4 hours behind London, not 5. Who acts: USA, New York. 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 depende
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 19

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The USA moves its clocks forward on the second Sunday of March, so for 2 or 3 weeks New York is 4 hours behind London, not 5.

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**Who acts:** USA, New York · **What happens:** move, be · **To what, where:** clocks, 4 hours, London

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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 (USA, New York), 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:19
# text = The USA moves its clocks forward on the second Sunday of March, so for 2 or 3 weeks New York is 4 hours behind London, not 5.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present | the USA | USA's clocks |  |  | sunday | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clock=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | New York | 4 hours |  | London | week |  | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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. **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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