Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 15

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 · What happens: begin, bear, belong · To what, where: 17, baby, 10

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Year	det
2	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Horse	det
5	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Year	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 Year	case
8	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Year	compound
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Year	compound
10	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 17	case
12	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 began	obl
13	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 17	nmod:unmarked
14	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 17	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 belongs	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	25 belongs	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 baby	det
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 belongs	nsubj
19	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 baby	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 10	case
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 born	obl
22	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 10	nmod:unmarked
23	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 10	flat
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 belongs	advmod
25	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 year	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 year	det
28	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 year	compound
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 belongs	obl
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 belongs	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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, 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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