Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 10

Without leap days the calendar would slowly slide away from the seasons: in 100 years it would be out by about 24 days, and after a few hundred years summer months would land in spring.

Who acts: calendar, summer months · What happens: slide away, be, land

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 (calendar, summer months), 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	Without	without	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	compound
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slide	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calendar	det
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slide	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 slide	aux
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 slide	advmod
8	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 slide	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 seasons	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seasons	det
12	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slide	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 slide	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 out	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 out	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 out	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 out	cop
20	out	out	ADV	_	8 slide	parataxis
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 days	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 24	advmod
23	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 out	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 land	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 land	cc
27	after	after	ADP	_	31 years	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 years	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 land	obl
32	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 months	compound
33	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 land	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 land	aux
35	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 out	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 spring	case
37	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 land	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	slide away	would	the calendar	day; season	away, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	calendar	day; year	out property	tree rules
3	land	would	summer months	spring; year		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:10.

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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