The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 16
"Spring forward, fall back" helps you remember which way the clocks go; "fall" is the American word for autumn.
Who acts: Spring, you, clocks, fall · What happens: fall back, help, remember, go, be · To what, where: way, American word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Spring, you, clocks, fall), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spring | punct |
| 2 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 Spring | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Spring | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 helps | xcomp |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remember | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clocks | det |
| 14 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 remember | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 word | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 18 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 word | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 22 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 word | amod |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 helps | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 autumn | case |
| 25 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back in a quote | infinitive | Spring not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Spring | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | you | which way | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | go | present | the clocks | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | fall | the American word | autumn | tree rules |
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:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:16.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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