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title: What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7? — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7? Test 7 · ★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · What day of the week will it be?

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What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** week · **What happens:** happen, have

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 115 «What day of the week will it be?» of the world 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/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:t7:1
# text = What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weekdays	weekday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to the weekdays | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the week |  |  |  | day | instead 7 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The same day would come back every 8 days instead of 7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:t7:o1:1
# text = The same day would come back every 8 days instead of 7
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | would | the same day |  |  |  | day | instead 7 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Christmas would always be on a Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:t7:o2:1
# text = Christmas would always be on a Sunday
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  | a Sunday |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Every month would have exactly 4 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:t7:o3:1
# text = Every month would have exactly 4 weeks
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | every month |  |  |  | week |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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