--- title: Words people use: "leapling" means someone born on 29 February, "cra… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "leapling" means someone born on 29 February, "craic" means fun (Ireland), "eejit" means a silly person (Ireland) and "highkey" means very openly, the opposite of "lowkey". Who acts: people, leapling, craic, eejit. 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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 (people, leapling, craic, eejit), 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:24 # text = Words people use: "leapling" means someone born on 29 February, "craic" means fun (Ireland), "eejit" means a silly person (Ireland) and "highkey" means very openly, the opposite of "lowkey". # 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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 leapling leapling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 highkey highkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 39 very very ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 openly openly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | leapling | someone | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | | 3 | **bear** | participle | | | | | february | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **mean** | present | craic | fun | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | eejit | a silly person | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | highkey | the opposite of lowkey | | | | openly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | 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:24`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/23/) - next →: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/)