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title: A normal year is 52 weeks and 1 day, so a date moves on one weekday… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics
description: A normal year is 52 weeks and 1 day, so a date moves on one weekday each year; if a 29 February comes in between, it moves on two. Who acts: normal year, date, 29 February, weekday. A sentence of the lesson «What day of the week will it be?» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# What day of the week will it be?, sentence 5

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A normal year is 52 weeks and 1 day, so a date moves on one weekday each year; if a 29 February comes in between, it moves on two.

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**Who acts:** normal year, date, 29 February, weekday · **What happens:** be, move, come · **To what, where:** 52 weeks, one weekday, two

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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 (normal year, date, 29 February, weekday), 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:5
# text = A normal year is 52 weeks and 1 day, so a date moves on one weekday each year; if a 29 February comes in between, it moves on two.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	weekday	weekday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	advmod	_	_
27	between	between	ADV	RB	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | a normal year | 52 weeks and 1 day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present | a date |  |  | one weekday | year |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on weekday=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a 29 February |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | present | weekday |  |  | two |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on two=Trajectory |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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