---
title: wait, what does the old man use for a walking stick? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what does the old man use for a walking stick? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1379 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mountain: he kills the monster, is poisoned, heals in hot springs, and goes home to Ise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1379-pg4018-part39/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1379-pg4018-part39/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait, what does the old man use for a walking stick?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, old man · **What happens:** wait, use

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1379 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mountain: he kills the monster, is poisoned, heals in hot springs, and goes home to Ise» 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/1379-pg4018-part39/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1379-pg4018-part39:t8:1
# text = wait, what does the old man use for a walking stick?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present · do-support | the old man |  |  |  |  | for a walking stick | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Theme for stick=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1379-pg4018-part39:t8:o1:1
# text = a rake
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1379-pg4018-part39:t8:o2:1
# text = a stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bamboo cane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1379-pg4018-part39:t8:o3:1
# text = a bamboo cane
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his scythe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1379-pg4018-part39:t8:o4:1
# text = his scythe
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	scythe	scythe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1379-pg4018-part39/t7/)
- next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1379-pg4018-part39/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mountain: he kills the monster, is poisoned, heals in hot springs, and goes home to Ise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1379-pg4018-part39/)