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title: Without leap years, the seasons would slowly move to different months. — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: Without leap years, the seasons would slowly move to different months. Who acts: seasons. 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 17

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Without leap years, the seasons would slowly move to different months.

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**Who acts:** seasons · **What happens:** move

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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 (seasons), 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:17
# text = Without leap years, the seasons would slowly move to different months.
# 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): no change
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | would | the seasons |  |  |  | month; year | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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**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): no change. **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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