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title: Which natural object does the queen of the year gaze at while lying… — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which natural object does the queen of the year gaze at while lying upon the fallen leaves? Exam question 4 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 tree
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

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Which natural object does the queen of the year gaze at while lying upon the fallen leaves?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** natural object, queen · **What happens:** do, gaze, lie, fall · **To what, where:** queen, fallen leaves

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e4:1
# text = Which natural object does the queen of the year gaze at while lying upon the fallen leaves?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | natural object | the queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the queen *not said here* |  |  | the fallen leaves |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon leaf=Location |
| 4 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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A distant hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e4:o1:1
# text = A distant hill
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A gleaming star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e4:o2:1
# text = A gleaming star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bright star shining above the old tower in the night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e4:o3:1
# text = A bright star shining above the old tower in the night
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | a bright star *not said here* |  |  | the old tower | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tower=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A gleaming star over the distant salt sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:e4:o4:1
# text = A gleaming star over the distant salt sea
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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