--- title: A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. State the zodiac animal of th… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… · tree and pragmatics description: A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. State the zodiac animal of the year commencing in 2030. Exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [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/e4/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. State the zodiac animal of the year commencing in 2030. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, zodiac animal · **What happens:** commence, state · **To what, where:** Horse, 2026, zodiac animal, 2030 This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/#e4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:1 # text = A year of the Horse commenced in 2026. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 commenced commence VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commence** | participle | | the Horse *not said here* | | 2026 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. *Sentence 2:* State the zodiac animal of the year commencing in 2030. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:2 # text = State the zodiac animal of the year commencing in 2030. 1 State state 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 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 2030 2030 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the zodiac animal of the year | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 2 | **commence** | gerund | the zodiac animal of the year *not said here* | | | 2030 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Rooster ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:o1:1 # text = Rooster 1 Rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Monkey ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:o2:1 # text = Monkey 1 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:o3:1 # text = Dog 1 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e4:o4:1 # text = Horse 1 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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