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title: Christmas Day and New Year's Day are exactly a week apart, so they a… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas Day and New Year's Day are exactly a week apart, so they always share a weekday: Christmas 2026 is on a Friday, and so is 1 January 2027. Who acts: Christmas, Dates. 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
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 4

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Christmas Day and New Year's Day are exactly a week apart, so they always share a weekday: Christmas 2026 is on a Friday, and so is 1 January 2027.

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**Who acts:** Christmas, Dates · **What happens:** be, share · **To what, where:** week, weekday, Friday, 2027

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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, Dates), 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:4
# text = Christmas Day and New Year's Day are exactly a week apart, so they always share a weekday: Christmas 2026 is on a Friday, and so is 1 January 2027.
# 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, R5-strong ×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	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
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	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	weekday	weekday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	2027	2027	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **is a** | present | Christmas | a week |  |  |  | apart, exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | present | Dates *= date* | a weekday |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  | a Friday |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Christmas *not said here* | 2027 |  |  |  | 1  January *nmod:unmarked* | 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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**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:4`.

**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, R5-strong ×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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