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title: Most years divisible by 4 are leap years, such as 2024 and 2028. — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: Most years divisible by 4 are leap years, such as 2024 and 2028. Who acts: Most years. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Time zones and the calendar, sentence 13

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Most years divisible by 4 are leap years, such as 2024 and 2028.

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**Who acts:** Most years · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** leap years

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» 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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:13
# text = Most years divisible by 4 are leap years, such as 2024 and 2028.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.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 ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	divisible	divisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	2028	2028	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | Most years | leap years |  |  |  | such 2024 | tree rules |

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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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:13`.

**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 ×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/).

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