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title: William Willett, a British builder, pushed for summer time from 1907… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: William Willett, a British builder, pushed for summer time from 1907; Britain started it in 1916, 9 years later, a few weeks after Germany. Who acts: William, Britain. 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
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 21

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William Willett, a British builder, pushed for summer time from 1907; Britain started it in 1916, 9 years later, a few weeks after Germany.

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**Who acts:** William, Britain · **What happens:** push, start · **To what, where:** USA, 1916

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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 (William, Britain), 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:21
# text = William Willett, a British builder, pushed for summer time from 1907; Britain started it in 1916, 9 years later, a few weeks after Germany.
# 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	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Willett	Willett	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	builder	builder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1916	1916	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **push** | participle | William |  |  |  | time | from 1907 | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from 1907=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **start** | past | Britain | USA |  | 1916 | week | late *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:21`.

**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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