What day of the week will it be?
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 115 of the world course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★ · right ✓
Kai counts on from Monday: "10 days, so Wednesday next week." What's right?
- 1. Monday; 10 days brings the same day — score 4
- 2. Thursday; 10 days is a week and 3 days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Friday; 10 days is a week and 4 — score 6
- 4. Wednesday; he counted right — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 115, line 1: «The days of the week go round like the seats on a merry-go-round with 7 seats: every 7 days the same day comes back. So to find the day in 10 days' time, take…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «10 days» (+3); the same thing acted on «1 week» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Harry: "Christmas is a Friday, so New Year's Day's Friday too, no cap." Is he right?
- 1. No, New Year's Day is on a Saturday — no support
- 2. No, New Year's Day is on a Thursday — no support
- 3. No, those two days never share a weekday — no support
- 4. Yes, they are exactly 7 days apart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 111, line 12: «Some countries such as Saudi Arabia have a Friday and Saturday weekend, because Friday is the day for big prayers in Islam; the United Arab Emirates moved its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «friday» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Max: "My birthday's always on a Saturday!" His sister: "No chance." Who's right?
- 1. Max, but only in leap years — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The sister; birthdays move round the week — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Neither; birthdays are always on Sundays — no support
- 4. Max; birthdays always keep the same weekday — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Emily's aunt says Friday the 13th is unlucky and checks 2026: three of them. What should Emily say?
- 1. Friday the 13th happens only every 3 years — no support
- 2. It's a superstition; nothing special happens — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Then 2026 will be three times as unlucky — no support
- 4. Every month has a Friday the 13th — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 115, line 15: «The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is a superstition; nothing special really happens on those days.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «superstition» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
A Delhi cousin: "Sir has preponed the party by exactly 7 days, it was on Sunday." What day is the new party?
- 1. Sunday, a week earlier — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Monday, eight days earlier — no support
- 3. Sunday, a whole week later — no support
- 4. Saturday, a week earlier — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lily's teacher: "1st of the month's a Tuesday, what's the 15th, y'all?" A boy shouts, "Thursday, cos 15 is odd!" Put him right.
- 1. Monday; the 15th always is — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tuesday; 15 is 14 days, two whole weeks, after the 1st — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Wednesday; add one day each week — no support
- 4. Thursday; odd dates fall on Thursdays — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to the weekdays if the week had 8 days instead of 7?
- 1. The same day would come back every 8 days instead of 7 — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Christmas would always be on a Sunday — score 3
- 3. Every month would have exactly 4 weeks — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Nothing would change at all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 6: «A week has 7 days, and a normal year has 52 weeks and 1 day, which is 365 days.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «normal year» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Zoe's mum: "Payday's the last Friday, month's 30 days, starts on a Thursday. Do the needful and tell me the date."
- 1. The 2nd — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The 30th — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The 23rd — no support
- 4. The 29th — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Mia, Gen Alpha (today's kids) and extra: "Sports day's the second Friday, June 1st is Monday, so it's June 2nd, it's giving Friday." Put her right.
- 1. It is 12 June; the first Friday is 5 June — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. It is 2 June, the second day — no support
- 3. It is 5 June, the first Friday — no support
- 4. It is 8 June, the second Monday — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 115, line 12: «"The second Friday" means the second time Friday comes in that month: if 1 June is a Monday, the first Friday is 5 June and the second is 12 June.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «first friday» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Ryan: "1 January 2000 was a Saturday? You're having a laugh, how would the phone know?"
- 1. Someone typed in every date by hand — no support
- 2. Phones only know dates after 2010 — no support
- 3. Calendar rules let computers work out any date's weekday — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Phones guess the day at random — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 115, line 4: «To find "the second Friday" or "the last Friday", find the first one and keep adding 7. Phones and computers use these same rules to find the weekday of any da…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «weekday» (+2); the same doer «phones» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, Halloween is a Saturday and Bonfire Night five days later is "also a Saturday". Put it right.
- 1. It is a Wednesday — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is still a Saturday — no support
- 3. It is a Thursday — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is a Friday too — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that the present day is Monday. Determine the day of the week upon which an event ten days hence shall occur.
- 1. Monday — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wednesday — no support
- 3. Thursday — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Friday — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Whereas the first day of a month falls upon a Tuesday, ascertain the day of the week of the fifteenth.
- 1. Tuesday — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Monday — no support
- 3. Thursday — no support
- 4. Wednesday — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the date of "the second Friday in June", given that the first of June is a Monday.
- 1. 5 June — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 9 June — no support
- 3. 12 June — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 13 June — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the weekday of a fixed date in successive ordinary years.
- 1. It recedes by one day each and every year — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It advances by seven days each year — no support
- 3. It advances by one day each year — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It remains unchanged every single year — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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