--- title: Without leap days the calendar would drift by about 24 days in 100 y… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Without leap days the calendar would drift by about 24 days in 100 years (about 25 if you use 6 hours a year), slowly sliding away from the seasons. Who acts: calendar, you. 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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 (calendar, you), 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:23 # text = Without leap days the calendar would drift by about 24 days in 100 years (about 25 if you use 6 hours a year), slowly sliding away from the seasons. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Without without ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 drift drift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 sliding slide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | would | the calendar | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **slide away** | gerund | the calendar *not said here* | | | | season | away, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:23`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/22/) - next →: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/)