The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 9

Phones change by themselves; ovens, cars and kitchen clocks need doing by hand, or they're an hour out for half the year.

Who acts: Phones, ovens · What happens: change, need, do, be · To what, where: hour

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 (Phones, ovens), 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	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 themselves	case
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 change	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 ovens	punct
6	ovens	oven	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cars	punct
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ovens	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clocks	cc
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clocks	compound
11	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ovens	conj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	parataxis
13	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 need	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hour	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 hour	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hour	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hour	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 hour	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 year	case
24	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 year	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hour	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Phones			by Phones = phone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	ovens and cars and kitchen clocks				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	gerund	ovens and cars and kitchen clocks not said here			by hand	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	ovens = oven	a hour	year		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:9.

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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