--- title: Phones and computers use these same rules to find the weekday of any… — What day of the week will it be? · tree and pragmatics description: Phones and computers use these same rules to find the weekday of any date, past or future, and the mathematician John Conway invented a trick, the "Doomsday rule", to do it in your head. Who acts: Phones, mathematician. 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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 (Phones, mathematician), 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:8 # text = Phones and computers use these same rules to find the weekday of any date, past or future, and the mathematician John Conway invented a trick, the "Doomsday rule", to do it in your head. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 weekday weekday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mathematician mathematician NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 24 Conway Conway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 Doomsday doomsday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Phones and computers | this same rules | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Phones and computers *not said here* | the weekday of any date | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weekday=Topic | | 3 | **invent** | past | the mathematician | a trick | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Result | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | | weekday | | your head | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [What day of the week will it be?, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/7/) - next →: [What day of the week will it be?, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/)