--- title: Without leap days the calendar would slowly slide away from the seas… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Without leap days the calendar would slowly slide away from the seasons: in 100 years it would be out by about 24 days, and after a few hundred years summer months would land in spring. Who acts: calendar, summer months. A sentence of the lesson «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» of the world co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Leap years and 29 February birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/) / 10 # Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 10 Without leap days the calendar would slowly slide away from the seasons: in 100 years it would be out by about 24 days, and after a few hundred years summer months would land in spring. **Who acts:** calendar, summer months · **What happens:** slide away, be, land 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, summer months), 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:10 # text = Without leap days the calendar would slowly slide away from the seasons: in 100 years it would be out by about 24 days, and after a few hundred years summer months would land in spring. # 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): no change 1 Without without ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 slide slide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 8 parataxis _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 32 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slide away** | would | the calendar | | | | day; season | away, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | would | calendar | | | | day; year | out *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **land** | would | summer months | | | | spring; year | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/9/) - next →: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/)