--- title: So there is a rule inside the rule: years ending in 00 are leap year… — Leap years and 29 February birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: So there is a rule inside the rule: years ending in 00 are leap years only if they also divide by 400. Who acts: rule, years, they. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Leap years and 29 February birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/) / 5 # Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 5 So there is a rule inside the rule: years ending in 00 are leap years only if they also divide by 400. **Who acts:** rule, years, they · **What happens:** be, end, divide · **To what, where:** 00, leap years 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 (rule, years, they), 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:5 # text = So there is a rule inside the rule: years ending in 00 are leap years only if they also divide by 400. # 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 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 inside inside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 11 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 00 00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 divide divide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **be** | present | a rule inside the rule | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **end** | gerund | years *not said here* | | | 00 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | years | leap years | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **divide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they | | | | | by 400 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 400=Co-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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/4/) - next →: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/)