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title: 6 hours a year for 4 years makes 24 hours, one whole day, which is w… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: 6 hours a year for 4 years makes 24 hours, one whole day, which is why there is a leap year about every 4 years. Who acts: 6 hours, one whole day, leap year. 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 
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# Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 13

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6 hours a year for 4 years makes 24 hours, one whole day, which is why there is a leap year about every 4 years.

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**Who acts:** 6 hours, one whole day, leap year · **What happens:** make, be

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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 (6 hours, one whole day, leap year), 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:13
# text = 6 hours a year for 4 years makes 24 hours, one whole day, which is why there is a leap year about every 4 years.
# 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	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
26	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | 6 hours  a year |  |  |  | hour |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | one whole day |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | a leap year  every 4 years |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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/).

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