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title: The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing special really happens on those days. Who acts: Friday, idea, nothing. 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 cla
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 19

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The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing special really happens on those days.

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**Who acts:** Friday, idea, nothing · **What happens:** be, happen · **To what, where:** idea, superstition

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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 (Friday, idea, nothing), 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:19
# text = The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing special really happens on those days.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	13th	13th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
14	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Friday | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  | unlucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the idea | a superstition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | present | nothing |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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