Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…
"Gee whiz, your dog's huge!" What is "gee" a soft form of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: soft form · What happens: be · To what, where: gee
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.
The question
Sentence 1: "Gee whiz, your dog's huge!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whiz | punct |
| 2 | Gee | gee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whiz | compound |
| 3 | whiz | whiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 huge | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 huge | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whiz | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 whiz | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whiz | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is "gee" a soft form of?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 gee | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gee | cop |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gee | punct |
| 4 | gee | gee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gee | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 form | punct |
| # | 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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Jesus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Grow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | 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
Good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Giant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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