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title: Spring Festival — Chinese New Year — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Chinese street
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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The 15 questions of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school with their options, 84 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t1/) — my friend says Chinese New Year is on 1 Jan like ours but they just party more. right? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t2/) — You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful. What have you done? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t3/) — Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What's right? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t4/) — Lín's mum moans every year "Chūnwǎn is so boring!" and then watches every minute. Is that strange? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t5/) — What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t6/) — Lín's sister falls asleep on the sofa at 10 pm on chúxī. What has she failed? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t7/) — A friend says the red everywhere at New Year is just because Chinese people like red. What does the old story add? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t8/) — In a cartoon the family eats the reunion dinner on New Year's Day morning. What's wrong? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t9/) — The lion dancer comes to a shop and grabs a red envelope hung with lettuce. Is the lion stealing? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t10/) — Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t11/) — Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the one wish everyone needs? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e1/) — Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e2/) — It is given that the character for "fortune" is affixed inverted upon a door. Select the statement that accurately characterises the reason. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term "niányèfàn"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning of the custom designated "shǒusuì". — wrong ✗ · exam

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