Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 20
In the UK the clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October, which in 2026 is 25 October; it brings darker afternoons, but winter as weather scientists count it starts on 1 December.
Who acts: clocks, last Sunday, UK, weather scientists · What happens: go back, be, bring, count, start · To what, where: UK, 25, 2026, winter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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, last Sunday, UK, weather scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clocks | det |
| 5 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hour | nummod |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Sunday | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sunday | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sunday | amod |
| 13 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 October | case |
| 15 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sunday | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 25 | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 25 | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 2026 | case |
| 19 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 25 | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 25 | cop |
| 21 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Sunday | acl:relcl |
| 22 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 brings | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brings | nsubj |
| 25 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | parataxis |
| 26 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 afternoons | amod |
| 27 | afternoons | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brings | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 winter | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 winter | cc |
| 30 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 afternoons | conj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 count | mark |
| 32 | weather | weather | NOUN | _ | 33 scientists | compound |
| 33 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 count | nsubj |
| 34 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 winter | acl:relcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 starts | nsubj |
| 36 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 count | ccomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 December | case |
| 38 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 December | nummod |
| 39 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 starts | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | the clocks | the UK | hour; sunday | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the last Sunday of October | 25 | 2026 | october | tree rules | ||
| 3 | bring | present | UK | afternoon | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | count | present | weather scientists | winter not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent winter=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | start | present | UK | december | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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.
Licence: CC 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:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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.
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