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title: A year is not exactly 365 days but about 365 days and 6 hours, so ev… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: A year is not exactly 365 days but about 365 days and 6 hours, so every four years the four extra quarter days add up to one whole day, and we add 29 February: that is a leap year. Who acts: year, four extra quarter days, we, that. A sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» of the world 
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# Time zones and the calendar, sentence 3

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A year is not exactly 365 days but about 365 days and 6 hours, so every four years the four extra quarter days add up to one whole day, and we add 29 February: that is a leap year.

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**Who acts:** year, four extra quarter days, we, that · **What happens:** be, add up, add · **To what, where:** 365 days, leap year

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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 (year, four extra quarter days, we, that), 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:3
# text = A year is not exactly 365 days but about 365 days and 6 hours, so every four years the four extra quarter days add up to one whole day, and we add 29 February: that is a leap year.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	365	365	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	parataxis	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	365	365	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **is a** | present | a year | 365 days but 365 days and 6 hours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | the four extra quarter days |  |  |  | day; year |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | we |  |  |  | february |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | a leap year |  |  |  |  | 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: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, R6-punct-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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