The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 6
"Spring forward, fall back" ("fall" is American for autumn): the spring night is only 23 hours long, the autumn night 25.
Who acts: Spring, fall, spring night · What happens: fall back, be · 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, fall, spring night), 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 | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 2 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 Spring | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spring | punct |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 American | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 10 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 American | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 American | cop |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fall | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 autumn | case |
| 15 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 American | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 American | punct |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 hours | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 night | compound |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 long | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 23 | advmod |
| 23 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 hours | nummod |
| 24 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fall | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 night | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 28 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 night | compound |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 night | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back in a quote | infinitive | Spring | night | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fall | autumn | american property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the spring night | hour | long property | 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:6.
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): R6-punct-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/6/