--- title: An extra full moon is called a blue moon; it is not blue, and "once… — The Moon's month and the year round the Sun · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The Moon's month and the year round th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/) / 20 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:20 # text = An extra full moon is called a blue moon; it is not blue, and "once in a blue moon" means very rarely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 119-moon-month-and-year.lesson # annotation = 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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/19/) - next →: [The Moon's month and the year round th…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/)