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title: Summer time, called British Summer Time in the UK and Daylight Savin… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Summer time, called British Summer Time in the UK and Daylight Saving Time in the USA, moves the clocks forward 1 hour in spring so evenings stay light longer, and back again in autumn. Who acts: Daylight, Summer time, evenings. A sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going f
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 5

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Summer time, called British Summer Time in the UK and Daylight Saving Time in the USA, moves the clocks forward 1 hour in spring so evenings stay light longer, and back again in autumn.

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**Who acts:** Daylight, Summer time, evenings · **What happens:** call, save, move, stay · **To what, where:** Summer time, clocks, light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Daylight, Summer time, evenings), 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:5
# text = Summer time, called British Summer Time in the UK and Daylight Saving Time in the USA, moves the clocks forward 1 hour in spring so evenings stay light longer, and back again in 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Summer	summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | Summer time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | Daylight *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | present | Summer time | the clocks |  |  | autumn; hour; spring | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clock=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | evenings | light |  |  |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme light=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:5`.

**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, 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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