Time zones and the calendar, sentence 4

Without leap years the calendar would slip by about one day every four years, and after about 750 years the summer months would fall in the middle of winter.

Who acts: calendar, summer months · What happens: slip, fall · To what, where: middle

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 (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 years	case
2	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	compound
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slip	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calendar	det
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slip	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 slip	aux
7	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slip	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 years	det
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slip	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 years	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 750	advmod
19	750	750	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fall	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 months	det
22	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 months	compound
23	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fall	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fall	aux
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 slip	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 middle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 middle	det
28	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 winter	case
30	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 middle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slip	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	slip	would	the calendar				day; year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	would	the summer months			the middle of winter	year		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:4.

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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