--- title: What day of the week will it be? — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What day of the week will it be?», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The days of the week go round like the seats on a merry-go-round with 7 seats: every 7 days the same day comes back. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / What day of the week will it be? # What day of the week will it be? Lesson 115 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/0/) — The days of the week go round like the seats on a merry-go-round with 7 seats: every 7 days the same day comes back. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/1/) — So to find the day in 10 days' time, take out the whole weeks and count only what is left: 10 days is 1 week and 3 days, and Monday plus 3 days is Thursday. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/2/) — Dates that are 7 apart fall on the same weekday. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/3/) — If the 1st of a month is a Tuesday, so are the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/4/) — Christmas Day and New Year's Day are exactly a week apart, so they always share a weekday: Christmas 2026 is on a Friday, and so is 1 January 2027. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/5/) — A normal year is 52 weeks and 1 day, so a date moves on one weekday each year; if a 29 February comes in between, it moves on two. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/6/) — A birthday on a Wednesday this year will be on a Thursday next year, and over the years it visits every day of the week. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/7/) — To find "the second Friday" or "the last Friday", find the first one and keep adding 7. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/8/) — Phones and computers use these same rules to find the weekday of any date, past or future, and the mathematician John Conway invented a trick, the "Doomsday rule", to do it in your head. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/9/) — Every 7 days the same weekday comes back, so to count on, take away whole weeks first and count the days left over. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/10/) — 10 days is 1 week and 3 days, so 10 days after a Monday is a Thursday. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/12/) — Christmas Day and New Year's Day are 7 days apart, so they fall on the same weekday; in 2026 Christmas is on a Friday and 1 January 2027 is a Friday too. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/13/) — Halloween, 31 October 2026, is a Saturday, and Bonfire Night, 5 November, is 5 days later, on a Thursday. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/14/) — In Britain 5 November is Bonfire Night, remembering a plot in 1605 to blow up Parliament. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/15/) — If the 1st of a month is a Tuesday, the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th are Tuesdays too. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/16/) — "The second Friday" means the second time Friday comes in that month: if 1 June is a Monday, the first Friday is 5 June and the second is 12 June. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/17/) — A birthday moves round the days of the week, so it cannot fall on a Saturday every year. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/18/) — Every year has at least one Friday the 13th and at most three; in 2026 they are 13 February, 13 March and 13 November. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/19/) — The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing special really happens on those days. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/20/) — 1 January 2000 was a Saturday, and phones and computers use calendar rules to find the weekday of any date. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/21/) — In a 30-day month that starts on a Thursday, the Fridays are the 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th, so the last Friday is the 30th. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/22/) — Words people use: "no chance" means no way, "prepone" means move to an earlier time, the opposite of postpone (Indian English), "do the needful" means do what needs doing (Indian English) "y'all" means you all (southern USA), "no cap" means "no lie", "extra" means over the top, "it's giving" means "it seems like" and "you're having a laugh" means you must be joking (UK). - ← previous: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/) - next →: [How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)