The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 20
An extra full moon is called a blue moon; it is not blue, and "once in a blue moon" means very rarely.
Who acts: Moon, blue moon · What happens: call, not be, mean · To what, where: extra full moon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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 (Moon, blue moon), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 2 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moon | amod |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moon | amod |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moon | amod |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 blue | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 blue | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 blue | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 blue | advmod |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 called | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 means | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 moon | punct |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 moon | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moon | amod |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 moon | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 rarely | advmod |
| 26 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 24 means | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | a extra full moon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | Moon | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a blue moon | rarely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:20.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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