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title: Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve? — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve? Test 10 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 was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** same table

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This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t10:1
# text = Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  | the same table on New Year's Eve |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at table=Location |

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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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Chūnwǎn and shǎng yuè

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t10:o1:1
# text = Chūnwǎn and shǎng yuè
1	Chūnwǎn	Chūnwǎn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	shǎng	shǎng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yuè	yuè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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bāo jiǎozi and niányèfàn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t10:o2:1
# text = bāo jiǎozi and niányèfàn
1	bāo	bāo	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	niányèfàn	niányèfàn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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wǔ shī and fàng biānpào

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t10:o3:1
# text = wǔ shī and fàng biānpào
1	wǔ	wǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	shī	shī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	fàng	fàng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	biānpào	biānpào	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sài lóngzhōu and zòngzi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t10:o4:1
# text = sài lóngzhōu and zòngzi
1	sài	sài	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	lóngzhōu	lóngzhōu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	zòngzi	zòngzi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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