--- title: Whereas the first day of a month falls upon a Tuesday, ascertain the… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas the first day of a month falls upon a Tuesday, ascertain the day of the week of the fifteenth. Exam question 2 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 option; Mova's cho --- [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/e2/) [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/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · What day of the week will it be? Whereas the first day of a month falls upon a Tuesday, ascertain the day of the week of the fifteenth. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** fall, ascertain This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e2:1 # text = Whereas the first day of a month falls upon a Tuesday, ascertain the day of the week of the fifteenth. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ascertain ascertain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fifteenth fifteenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | | | | | day; tuesday | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ascertain** | present | | | | | day | | vn discover-84 «NP V how 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Tuesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e2:o1:1 # text = Tuesday 1 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Monday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e2:o2:1 # text = Monday 1 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e2: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} Wednesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:e2:o4:1 # text = Wednesday 1 Wednesday Wednesday 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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