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title: The days of the week go round like the seats on a merry-go-round wit… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: days, same day. A sentence of the lesson «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** days, same day · **What happens:** go round, go, come back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, same day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | present | the days of the week |  |  |  |  | like the seats on a merry go round; with 7 seats; round *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with seat=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | present | the same day |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be.lesson:0`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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