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title: Years that divide exactly by 4 are usually leap years: 2024, 2028, 2… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Years that divide exactly by 4 are usually leap years: 2024, 2028, 2032 and 2036 are; 2026 is not. Who acts: Years. 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 clause.
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# Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 14

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Years that divide exactly by 4 are usually leap years: 2024, 2028, 2032 and 2036 are; 2026 is not.

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**Who acts:** Years · **What happens:** divide, be · **To what, where:** leap years

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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 (Years), 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:14
# text = Years that divide exactly by 4 are usually leap years: 2024, 2028, 2032 and 2036 are; 2026 is not.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	divide	divide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	2028	2028	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	2032	2032	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	2036	2036	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **divide** | present | Years |  |  |  |  | by 4; exactly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Years | leap years |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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