--- title: "The second Friday" means the second time Friday comes in that month… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: second Friday, Friday, 1 June, first Friday. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second Friday, Friday, 1 June, first Friday), 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:16 # text = "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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 parataxis _ _ 28 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 appos _ _ 34 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | the second Friday | | | | time | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | present | Friday | the second time *not said here* | | | month | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | 1 June | a Monday | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the first Friday | 5 | | | june | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | 12 | | | june | | tree rules | 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. **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:16`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [What day of the week will it be?, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/15/) - next →: [What day of the week will it be?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/)