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title: To catch up, February gets an extra day, 29 February, in a leap year… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: To catch up, February gets an extra day, 29 February, in a leap year of 366 days. Who acts: February. 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 2

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To catch up, February gets an extra day, 29 February, in a leap year of 366 days.

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**Who acts:** February · **What happens:** catch up, get

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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 (February), 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:2
# text = To catch up, February gets an extra day, 29 February, in a leap year of 366 days.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	366	366	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **catch up** | to-infinitive | February *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | February |  |  |  | day; year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:2`.

**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): R8-pos-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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