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title: A leapling born in 2016 has real 29 February birthdays in 2020, 2024… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: A leapling born in 2016 has real 29 February birthdays in 2020, 2024, 2028 and 2032, and turns 16 on the fourth of them. Who acts: leapling. 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 19

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A leapling born in 2016 has real 29 February birthdays in 2020, 2024, 2028 and 2032, and turns 16 on the fourth of them.

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**Who acts:** leapling · **What happens:** bear, have, turn · **To what, where:** leapling, 2016, real 29 February birthdays, 2020, 16, fourth

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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 (leapling), 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:19
# text = A leapling born in 2016 has real 29 February birthdays in 2020, 2024, 2028 and 2032, and turns 16 on the fourth of them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leapling	leapling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	2028	2028	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	2032	2032	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
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 | **bear** | participle |  | a leapling *not said here* |  | 2016 |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | a leapling | real 29 February birthdays |  | 2020 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a leapling *not said here* | 16 |  | the fourth of leaplings |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 16=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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**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): 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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