---
title: Yo, what's the old man's problem in the other tale? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what's the old man's problem in the other tale? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1383-pg4018-part43/t13/)

<!-- 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, Watanabe and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1383-pg4018-part43/) / t13

# Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, what's the old man's problem in the other tale?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** problem, other tale

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» 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/1383-pg4018-part43/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:t13:1
# text = Yo, what's the old man's problem in the other tale?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
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	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the old man's problem |  | the other tale |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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 boil on his left arm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:t13:o1:1
# text = A boil on his left arm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A wen on his right cheek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:t13:o2:1
# text = A wen on his right cheek
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A swelling on his forehead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:t13:o3:1
# text = A swelling on his forehead
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A huge swelling that hung down over his jaw like a ripe melon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:t13:o4:1
# text = A huge swelling that hung down over his jaw like a ripe melon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang down** | past | a huge swelling |  |  | his jaw |  | like a ripe melon; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over jaw=Location |

<!-- 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, Watanabe and the…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1383-pg4018-part43/t12/)
- next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the…, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1383-pg4018-part43/t14/)
- ↑ back to [Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1383-pg4018-part43/)