What day of the week will it be?, sentence 8
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 · What happens: use, find, invent, do · To what, where: same rules, weekday, trick, head
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 (Phones, mathematician), 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 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 computers | cc |
| 3 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Phones | conj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 rules | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rules | amod |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weekday | det |
| 11 | weekday | weekday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 date | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 date | det |
| 14 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weekday | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 past | punct |
| 16 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weekday | parataxis |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 future | cc |
| 18 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 past | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 invented | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 invented | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mathematician | det |
| 22 | mathematician | mathematician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 invented | nsubj |
| 23 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mathematician | appos |
| 24 | Conway | Conway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 John | flat |
| 25 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 trick | det |
| 27 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 invented | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rule | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rule | det |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 rule | punct |
| 31 | Doomsday | doomsday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 rule | compound |
| 32 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trick | appos |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 rule | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 do | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 head | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
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, 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.
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