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title: The Earth takes about 365 days and 6 hours to go once round the Sun,… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth takes about 365 days and 6 hours to go once round the Sun, but a calendar can only count whole days. Who acts: Earth, calendar. A sentence of the lesson «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 0

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The Earth takes about 365 days and 6 hours to go once round the Sun, but a calendar can only count whole days.

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**Who acts:** Earth, calendar · **What happens:** take, go, count · **To what, where:** Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» 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 (Earth, calendar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays.lesson:0
# text = The Earth takes about 365 days and 6 hours to go once round the Sun, but a calendar can only count whole days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays.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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	365	365	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the Earth |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Earth *not said here* |  |  | the Sun |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **count** | can | a calendar |  |  |  | day |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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