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title: Spring Festival — Chinese New Year — how Mova does on the tests · Chinese street
description: Lesson 25 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 25 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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my friend says Chinese New Year is on 1 Jan like ours but they just party more. right?

- **1.** Yes, but only in China — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it's always in March, in spring — no support
- **3.** Yes, same day, just a much bigger party — no support
- **4.** No, it's late Jan or Feb, by the moon — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful. What have you done?

- **1.** Nothing, it doesn't matter which way up — no support
- **2.** Made it luckier for the whole year — no support
- **3.** Undone the "luck has arrived" pun — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Found a secret message — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside down on purpose, because dào (upside down) sounds like dào (arrived), so "fú dào le" means…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «arrive» (+2); the same doer «luck» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What's right?

- **1.** Let him if he wears something red — no support
- **2.** Firecrackers are for grown-ups only — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **3.** Let him, it's lucky for little ones — no support
- **4.** Let him if granny watches TV — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 13: «"fàng biānpào" means setting off firecrackers, at midnight in China and at Chinatown parades in Britain; firecrackers are for grown-ups, and the noise can scar…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «firecrackers» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Lín's mum moans every year "Chūnwǎn is so boring!" and then watches every minute. Is that strange?

- **1.** It means she loves boring things — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She must be lying about it being boring — no support
- **3.** It's a famous family habit, everyone does it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She is forced to by law — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom?

- **1.** They'd say the luck had doubled for the year — no support
- **2.** Nothing, it's normal — no support
- **3.** They'd joke he'd swept the luck away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** They'd give him a red envelope for it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 10: «"chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some homes nobody sweeps the floor that day, so as not to sweep the luck away.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «luck» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Lín's sister falls asleep on the sofa at 10 pm on chúxī. What has she failed?

- **1.** niányèfàn, the dinner — no support
- **2.** shǒusuì, staying up for midnight — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** bāo jiǎozi, folding dumplings — no support
- **4.** wǔ shī, the lion dance — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 18: «"shǒusuì" means staying up to see in the New Year; children are allowed up past midnight, and falling asleep first is the classic.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «shǒusuì» (+4); the same action «stay up» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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A friend says the red everywhere at New Year is just because Chinese people like red. What does the old story add?

- **1.** Red scared away the monster nián — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** Red is cheap in winter — no support
- **3.** Red means danger, so keep away from the house — no support
- **4.** Red is for weddings only, not New Year — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 8: «In an old story "nián" was a monster scared away by red and by loud bangs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «scare away» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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In a cartoon the family eats the reunion dinner on New Year's Day morning. What's wrong?

- **1.** It should be at Easter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nothing, it's breakfast — no support
- **3.** niányèfàn is on New Year's Eve — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It should be at the Moon Festival — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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The lion dancer comes to a shop and grabs a red envelope hung with lettuce. Is the lion stealing?

- **1.** Yes, call the police, it's daylight robbery — no support
- **2.** Yes, but it's allowed once a year — no support
- **3.** No, he's buying lettuce — score 6
- **4.** No, the lion "eats" them: it's part of the dance — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 16: «"wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "eats" lettuce and red envelopes hung up by shops.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «lion» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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

- **1.** Chūnwǎn and shǎng yuè — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** bāo jiǎozi and niányèfàn — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** wǔ shī and fàng biānpào — no support
- **4.** sài lóngzhōu and zòngzi — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the one wish everyone needs?

- **1.** zhōumò kuàilè — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** xīnnián kuàilè — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** shēngrì kuàilè — no support
- **4.** wǎn'ān — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year.

- **1.** Qīngmíng jié — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Zhōngqiū jié — no support
- **3.** Chūnjié — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Duānwǔ jié — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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It is given that the character for "fortune" is affixed inverted upon a door. Select the statement that accurately characterises the reason.

- **1.** Inversion averts the attention of thieves from the household — no support
- **2.** It was affixed in error by careless persons — no support
- **3.** Inversion denotes mourning — no support
- **4.** dào (inverted) sounds like dào (arrived): fortune has arrived — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside down on purpose, because dào (upside down) sounds like dào (arrived), so "fú dào le" means…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sound» (+2); the same doer «dào» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term "niányèfàn"?

- **1.** A meal eaten at the Moon Festival by the family — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A banquet held on one's birthday — no support
- **3.** A breakfast eaten on the first day of spring — no support
- **4.** The family reunion dinner held on New Year's Eve — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the meaning of the custom designated "shǒusuì".

- **1.** Visiting the graves of ancestors — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Abstaining from food on New Year's Day until nightfall — no support
- **3.** Remaining awake to witness the arrival of the New Year — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Racing boats upon a river — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/e4/)

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- ← previous: [24. Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/)
- next →: [26. Red envelopes and New Year wishes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/)
- ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/)