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title: Christmas Day and New Year's Day are 7 days apart, so they fall on t… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Christmas, Phones, 1 January. A sentence of the lesson «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school w
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** Christmas, Phones, 1 January · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** same weekday, Friday

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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 (Christmas, Phones, 1 January), 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	5	amod	_	_
5	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	weekday	weekday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
23	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	2027	2027	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  |  | day | apart *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | Phones *= phone* |  |  | the same weekday |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on weekday=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  | a Friday and a Friday |  | in 2026 | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 1 January | a Friday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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