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title: "Gee whiz, your dog's huge!" What is "gee" a soft form of? — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gee whiz, your dog's huge!" What is "gee" a soft form of? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

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"Gee whiz, your dog's huge!" What is "gee" a soft form of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** soft form · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gee

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Gee whiz, your dog's huge!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:1
# text = "Gee whiz, your dog's huge!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gee	gee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	whiz	whiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What is "gee" a soft form of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:2
# text = What is "gee" a soft form of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gee	gee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a soft form | gee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Jesus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:o1:1
# text = Jesus
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:o2:1
# text = Grow
1	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:o3:1
# text = Good
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t12:o4:1
# text = Giant
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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