In the sentence “While playing the tuba, Orin felt as if his world was perfect,” Is “playing the tuba” a gerund phrase or a present participial phrase?

answer: a lonely woodcutter comes by and decides to chop down the tree, while chopping, connor murphy took a nap next to the tree. waking up from the sound of chopping, he notices the tree falling on him. unable to escape, connor get hit and dies. this was the last of him.

ma”am had a granddaughter who lived a couple blocks away from her school who later on then met friends

i literally just read the book and studied it for months so i could you, but i need to know where these questions are coming from. they are too general.