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title: Most years that divide exactly by 4 are leap years: 2024 ÷ 4 = 506 a… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Most years that divide exactly by 4 are leap years: 2024 ÷ 4 = 506 and 2028 ÷ 4 = 507, so both are; 2026 ÷ 4 = 506.5, so it is not. Who acts: Most years, ÷. 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 p
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# Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 3

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Most years that divide exactly by 4 are leap years: 2024 ÷ 4 = 506 and 2028 ÷ 4 = 507, so both are; 2026 ÷ 4 = 506.5, so it is not.

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**Who acts:** Most years, ÷ · **What happens:** divide, be, not be · **To what, where:** leap years, 2026

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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 (Most years, ÷), 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:3
# text = Most years that divide exactly by 4 are leap years: 2024 ÷ 4 = 506 and 2028 ÷ 4 = 507, so both are; 2026 ÷ 4 = 506.5, so it is not.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	divide	divide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	parataxis	_	_
13	÷	÷	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	case	_	_
16	506	506	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	2028	2028	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
19	÷	÷	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	case	_	_
22	507	507	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	parataxis	_	_
29	÷	÷	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	32	case	_	_
32	506.5	506.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present | Most years |  |  |  |  | by 4; exactly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Most years | leap years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 2026 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **be** | present | ÷ |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:3`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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