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title: Ascertain the zodiac animal of the year commencing at the Chinese Ne… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the zodiac animal of the year commencing at the Chinese New Year of 2026. Exam question 4 of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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 wr
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# Exam question 4 · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

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Ascertain the zodiac animal of the year commencing at the Chinese New Year of 2026.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, zodiac animal · **What happens:** ascertain, commence · **To what, where:** zodiac animal

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the zodiac animal of the year commencing at the Chinese New Year of 2026.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animal	animal	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	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	commencing	commence	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the zodiac animal of the year |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic |
| 2 | **commence** | gerund | the zodiac animal of the year *not said here* |  |  |  | at the Chinese New Year of 2026 |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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The Rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e4:o1:1
# text = The Rat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	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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The Dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e4:o2:1
# text = The Dragon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e4:o3:1
# text = The Goat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e4:o4:1
# text = The Horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Horse	horse	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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