--- title: A year is the time the Earth takes to go round the Sun, about 365 an… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: A year is the time the Earth takes to go round the Sun, about 365 and a quarter days, so every fourth year has an extra day, 29 February, to keep the seasons in place on the calendar. Who acts: year, Earth, fourth year. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, Earth, fourth year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:16 # text = A year is the time the Earth takes to go round the Sun, about 365 and a quarter days, so every fourth year has an extra day, 29 February, to keep the seasons in place on the calendar. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 040-seasons-and-tides.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 round round ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 365 365 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 appos _ _ 32 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a year | the time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | the Earth | 365 and a quarter and days | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Earth *not said here* | | | the Sun | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **have** | present | every fourth year | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the Earth *not said here* | | | place on the calendar | season | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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