The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 21
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 · What happens: push, start · To what, where: USA, 1916
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | Willett | Willett | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 William | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 builder | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 builder | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 builder | amod |
| 6 | builder | builder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 William | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushed | punct |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 started | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 1907 | case |
| 13 | 1907 | 1907 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 pushed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Britain | punct |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1916 | case |
| 19 | 1916 | 1916 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1916 | punct |
| 21 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 later | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 started | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 weeks | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 weeks | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 weeks | amod |
| 27 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 started | obl |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 Germany | case |
| 29 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 weeks | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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