The Earth as a planet, sentence 9
The extra quarter of a day each year is why we add a leap day, 29 February, about every four years.
Who acts: extra quarter, we · What happens: be, add
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» of the space 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 (extra quarter, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 quarter | det |
| 2 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quarter | amod |
| 3 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 why | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarter | nmod |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 why | cop |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 add | nsubj |
| 12 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 why | advcl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 add | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 17 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 day | appos |
| 18 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 29 | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 years | advmod |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 years | det |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 add | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the extra quarter of a day each year | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | we | day; year | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:space:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.lesson:9.
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.
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