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title: 1 January 2000 was a Saturday, and phones and computers use calendar… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: 1 January 2000 was a Saturday, and phones and computers use calendar rules to find the weekday of any date. Who acts: 1 January, phones. 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 claus
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 20

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1 January 2000 was a Saturday, and phones and computers use calendar rules to find the weekday of any date.

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**Who acts:** 1 January, phones · **What happens:** be, use, find · **To what, where:** Saturday, calendar rules, weekday

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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 (1 January, phones), 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:20
# text = 1 January 2000 was a Saturday, and phones and computers use calendar rules to find the weekday of any date.
# 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
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	weekday	weekday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | past | 1 January  2000 | a Saturday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | phones and computers | calendar rules |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | phones and computers *not said here* | the weekday of any date |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weekday=Topic |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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