--- title: It is given that the present day is Monday. Determine the day of the… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that the present day is Monday. Determine the day of the week upon which an event ten days hence shall occur. Exam question 1 of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [What day of the week will it be?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · What day of the week will it be? It is given that the present day is Monday. Determine the day of the week upon which an event ten days hence shall occur. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** present day, you, event · **What happens:** give, be, determine, occur · **To what, where:** It, Monday This is exam question 1 of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/#e1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that the present day is Monday. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:1 # text = It is given that the present day is Monday. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the present day | Monday | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Determine the day of the week upon which an event ten days hence shall occur. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:2 # text = Determine the day of the week upon which an event ten days hence shall occur. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 hence hence ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 occur occur VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | day | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **occur** | shall | a event | | | | upon the week | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon which=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Monday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:o1:1 # text = Monday 1 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Wednesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:o2:1 # text = Wednesday 1 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:o3:1 # text = Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Friday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e1:o4:1 # text = Friday 1 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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