--- title: In years without 29 February, leaplings usually celebrate on 28 Febr… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: In years without 29 February, leaplings usually celebrate on 28 February or 1 March; in the UK a leapling is usually counted as turning a new age on 1 March. Who acts: leaplings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaplings), 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:18 # text = In years without 29 February, leaplings usually celebrate on 28 February or 1 March; in the UK a leapling is usually counted as turning a new age on 1 March. # 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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 3 without without ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 leaplings leapling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 celebrate celebrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 14 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 15 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 leapling leapling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **celebrate** | present | leaplings | | | 28 February | year | usually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **count** | present · passive | | a leapling | | the UK | | usually *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | | a new age | | 1 March | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent age=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:18`. **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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×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. 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