--- title: Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Chinese street description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… # Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ The 15 questions of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school with their options, 89 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/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t1/) — ★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit». What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t2/) — ★★★ Ming groans «I've told you a million times, there's like a million tones!» How many are there really? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t3/) — ★★★ Isla from Glasgow says «aye, Sunday's xīngqīqī, day seven, ken». What is wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t4/) — ★★★ It's xīngqīwǔ. Ming says «see you hòutiān at Chinese school», and school is on Saturday. Is he right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t5/) — ★★★ Tyler from Texas says «no cap, yí ge and yì tiān are typos for yī». What's really going on? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t6/) — ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit». Why not? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t7/) — ★★★ Kai from Auckland was born on 25 January 2017: «sweet as, I'm a Rooster, cos 2017». Chinese New Year 2017 was on 28 January. Which animal is he? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t8/) — ★★★ Ming's granny says the dumplings took «yìbǎi nián» (a hundred years) to fold. How long did they take? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t9/) — ★★★ Riya from Mumbai wants a bun and tells the stall «wǒ mài». What should she have said? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t10/) — ★★★ Ella goes «8, 9 and 6 are lucky, so 4 is luckiest, it's the smallest!» Which is right? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/t11/) — ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October. When should she? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/e1/) — Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/e2/) — Given that the present day is xīngqīsān, ascertain the day designated by hòutiān. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/e3/) — Identify the expression in which the negative bù is pronounced with a rising tone. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/e4/) — A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. State the zodiac animal of the year commencing in 2030. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [30. 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