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description: Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year. Exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Exam question 1 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, know, designate · **To what, where:** Mandarin designation, festival, English

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:e1:1
# text = Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Mandarin designation of the festival |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the festival *not said here* |  | English | as Chinese New Year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as year=Attribute |
| 3 | **designate** |  |  | the festival |  |  |  |  | nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Qīngmíng jié

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:e1:o1:1
# text = Qīngmíng jié
1	Qīngmíng	Qīngmíng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jié	jié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Zhōngqiū jié

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:e1:o2:1
# text = Zhōngqiū jié
1	Zhōngqiū	Zhōngqiū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jié	jié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Chūnjié

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:e1:o3:1
# text = Chūnjié
1	Chūnjié	Chūnjié	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Duānwǔ jié

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:e1:o4:1
# text = Duānwǔ jié
1	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jié	jié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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