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.
The question
Sentence 1: A year of the Horse commenced in 2026.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Horse | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Horse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Horse | det |
| 5 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Horse | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2026 | case |
| 8 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 commenced | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Horse | 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.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animal | compound |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animal | nmod |
| 8 | commencing | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 animal | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2030 | case |
| 10 | 2030 | 2030 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 commencing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | 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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Rooster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Monkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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