Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 23

Without leap days the calendar would drift by about 24 days in 100 years (about 25 if you use 6 hours a year), slowly sliding away from the seasons.

Who acts: calendar, you · What happens: drift, use, slide away

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, you), 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	7 drift	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calendar	det
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drift	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drift	aux
7	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 24	advmod
10	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drift	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	nmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 25	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 25	advmod
17	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 drift	parataxis
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 use	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 use	nsubj
20	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 25	advcl
21	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 hours	nummod
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 use	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hours	nmod:unmarked
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 25	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sliding	punct
27	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	28 sliding	advmod
28	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 drift	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 sliding	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 seasons	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 seasons	det
32	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sliding	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drift	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	drift	would	the calendar	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	present	you	hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	slide away	gerund	the calendar not said here	season	away, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:23.

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.

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