What day of the week will it be?, sentence 12
Christmas Day and New Year's Day are 7 days apart, so they fall on the same weekday; in 2026 Christmas is on a Friday and 1 January 2027 is a Friday too.
Who acts: Christmas, Phones, 1 January · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: same weekday, Friday
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, Phones, 1 January), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 apart | nsubj |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christmas | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Day | cc |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 5 Year | amod |
| 5 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Year | case |
| 7 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 apart | cop |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 apart | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 15 fall | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 apart | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fall | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fall | nsubj |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 weekday | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weekday | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weekday | amod |
| 19 | weekday | weekday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 2026 | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2026 | case |
| 22 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Friday | obl |
| 23 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Friday | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Friday | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Friday | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Friday | det |
| 27 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Friday | cc |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 January | nummod |
| 30 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Friday | nsubj |
| 31 | 2027 | 2027 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 1 | flat |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Friday | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Friday | det |
| 34 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Friday | conj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 Friday | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 apart | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Christmas | day | apart property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | present | Phones = phone | the same weekday | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on weekday=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Christmas | a Friday and a Friday | in 2026 | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | 1 January | a Friday | tree rules |
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, 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:12.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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