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title: A builder, William Willett, pushed for it in Britain from 1907, beca… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: A builder, William Willett, pushed for it in Britain from 1907, because he hated seeing curtains closed on bright summer mornings; Germany and then Britain started it in 1916, during the First World War, to save coal. Who acts: builder, curtains, Germany. A sentence of the lesson «The date line and 
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 7

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A builder, William Willett, pushed for it in Britain from 1907, because he hated seeing curtains closed on bright summer mornings; Germany and then Britain started it in 1916, during the First World War, to save coal.

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**Who acts:** builder, curtains, Germany · **What happens:** push, hate, see, close, start, save · **To what, where:** Britain, curtains, fall, 1916, coal

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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 (builder, curtains, Germany), 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:7
# text = A builder, William Willett, pushed for it in Britain from 1907, because he hated seeing curtains closed on bright summer mornings; Germany and then Britain started it in 1916, during the First World War, to save coal.
# 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 ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	builder	builder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Willett	Willett	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
26	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1916	1916	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
35	during	during	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	First	First	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	39	amod	_	_
38	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
43	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **push** | past | a builder |  |  | Britain |  | for fall; from 1907 | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from 1907=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **hate** | past | builder |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | gerund | builder *not said here* | curtains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | participle | curtains *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **start** | past | Germany and Britain | fall |  | 1916 | during the First World War |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | Germany and Britain *not said here* | coal |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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