Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 7

People born on 29 February, called leaplings, have their real birthday date only once every 4 years, but they still grow one year older every year.

Who acts: People · What happens: bear, call, have, grow · To what, where: People, 29, leaplings, real birthday date · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 People	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 29	case
4	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 born	obl
5	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 29	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 People	acl
8	leaplings	leapling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 People	punct
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 date	nmod:poss
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 date	amod
13	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 date	compound
14	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 once	advmod
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 have	advmod
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 years	det
18	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 once	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grow	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 grow	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grow	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 grow	advmod
24	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 year	nummod
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 older	obl:unmarked
27	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 grow	xcomp
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 year	det
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grow	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		People not said here	29 February			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	participle	People not said here	leaplings				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	People	People's real birthday date			once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
4	grow	present	People			still; year	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:7.

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 ×2. 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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