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title: So who sits on the snowdrift hill looking south at the end? — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So who sits on the snowdrift hill looking south at the end? Test 14 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

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So who sits on the snowdrift hill looking south at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** snowdrift hill · **What happens:** sit, look · **To what, where:** snowdrift hill

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t14:1
# text = So who sits on the snowdrift hill looking south at the end?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | the snowdrift hill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the snowdrift hill *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end | south *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=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 {#o1}

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Spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t14:o1:1
# text = Spring
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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old Winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t14:o2:1
# text = old Winter
1	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	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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the ruler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t14:o3:1
# text = the ruler
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the stork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t14: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	_	_
```

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

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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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