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title: Wednesday is week-three. Using the pattern, what is Thursday? — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Wednesday is week-three. Using the pattern, what is Thursday? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays

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Wednesday is week-three. Using the pattern, what is Thursday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pattern · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** Wednesday week, pattern, Thursday

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Wednesday is week-three.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:1
# text = Wednesday is week-three.
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Wednesday week |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Using the pattern, what is Thursday?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:2
# text = Using the pattern, what is Thursday?
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | the pattern |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the pattern | Thursday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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xīngqīsān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:o1:1
# text = xīngqīsān
1	xīngqīsān	xīngqīsān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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xīngqīsì

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:o2:1
# text = xīngqīsì
1	xīngqīsì	xīngqīsì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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xīngqīliù

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:o3:1
# text = xīngqīliù
1	xīngqīliù	xīngqīliù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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xīngqīwǔ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t6:o4:1
# text = xīngqīwǔ
1	xīngqīwǔ	xīngqīwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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