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title: So every year the calendar falls about 6 hours behind, and after 4 y… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: So every year the calendar falls about 6 hours behind, and after 4 years that makes 4 × 6 = 24 hours, a whole day. Who acts: calendar, that. 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 eve
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# Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 1

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So every year the calendar falls about 6 hours behind, and after 4 years that makes 4 × 6 = 24 hours, a whole day.

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**Who acts:** calendar, that · **What happens:** fall about, make · **To what, where:** 4 ×

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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 (calendar, that), 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:1
# text = So every year the calendar falls about 6 hours behind, and after 4 years that makes 4 × 6 = 24 hours, a whole day.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
22	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:appos
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **fall about** | present | the calendar |  |  |  | year | behind *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | that | 4 ×  6 |  |  | hour; year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ×=Product |

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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:1`.

**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. **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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