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title: If the day before yesterday was Thursday, today is Saturday and the… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: If the day before yesterday was Thursday, today is Saturday and the day after tomorrow is Monday. Who acts: day, today. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

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If the day before yesterday was Thursday, today is Saturday and the day after tomorrow is Monday.

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**Who acts:** day, today · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Thursday, Saturday, Monday

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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 (day, today), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:10
# text = If the day before yesterday was Thursday, today is Saturday and the day after tomorrow is Monday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | past | the day before yesterday | Thursday and Saturday and Monday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | today | Saturday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the day after tomorrow | Monday |  |  |  |  | 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:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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