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title: If "sereda" means the middle, why does Wednesday fit? — What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: If "sereda" means the middle, why does Wednesday fit? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» of the Ukrainian 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 4 · ★★★ · What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons

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If "sereda" means the middle, why does Wednesday fit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sereda, Wednesday · **What happens:** mean, fit · **To what, where:** middle

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» of the Ukrainian 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/ukrainian-street/25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t4:1
# text = If "sereda" means the middle, why does Wednesday fit?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	sereda	sereda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | sereda | the middle |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Topic |
| 2 | **fit** | present · do-support | Wednesday |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is the day of rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t4:o1:1
# text = It is the day of rest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the day |  |  |  | of rest | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is the first day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t4:o2:1
# text = It is the first day
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the first day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It is the middle of a Monday-to-Sunday week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t4:o3:1
# text = It is the middle of a Monday-to-Sunday week
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is the weekend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t4:o4:1
# text = It is the weekend
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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