--- title: The Year of the Horse began at Chinese New Year on 17 February 2026,… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The Year of the Horse began at Chinese New Year on 17 February 2026, so a baby born on 10 January 2026 still belongs to the Snake year before it. Who acts: Year, baby. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Year, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:15 # text = The Year of the Horse began at Chinese New Year on 17 February 2026, so a baby born on 10 January 2026 still belongs to the Snake year before it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Horse Horse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Chinese Chinese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 13 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 before before ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the Year of the Horse | | | 17 February | at Chinese New Year | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **bear** | participle | | a baby *not said here* | | 10 January | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **belong** | present | a baby | | | | before order; still; year | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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