--- title: Which of the following characters is described as sitting on the roc… — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Which of the following characters is described as sitting on the rock by the heaving salt sea? Exam question 1 of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1032-pg27200-part243/e1/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen, The Story of the Year, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1032-pg27200-part243/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in… Which of the following characters is described as sitting on the rock by the heaving salt sea? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, describe, sit · **To what, where:** rock This is exam question 1 of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» of the books 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/books/1032-pg27200-part243/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e1:1 # text = Which of the following characters is described as sitting on the rock by the heaving salt sea? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 heaving heaving NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **describe** | present · passive | | | | | | of the following characters | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: which=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | | | | the rock | | by the salt sea | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The queen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e1:o1:1 # text = The queen 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Summer himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e1:o2:1 # text = Summer himself 1 Summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The old farmer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e1:o3:1 # text = The old farmer 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The stork ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e1:o4:1 # text = The stork 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stork stork 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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