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title: «Mum's seeing a counsellor? She's not cray cray,» says Ben's cousin… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Mum's seeing a counsellor? She's not cray cray,» says Ben's cousin (cray cray = crazy). What's true? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 69 «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 7 · ★ · When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer

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«Mum's seeing a counsellor? She's not cray cray,» says Ben's cousin (cray cray = crazy). What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, cray cray · **What happens:** see, not be, say, be · **To what, where:** counsellor, cray cray, cousin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 69 «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Mum's seeing a counsellor?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:1
# text = «Mum's seeing a counsellor?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mum | a counsellor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsellor=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* She's not cray cray,» says Ben's cousin (cray cray = crazy).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:2
# text = She's not cray cray,» says Ben's cousin (cray cray = crazy).
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	cray	cray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cray	cray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	cray	cray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cray	cray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Mum | cray cray |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | cray cray *not said here* | Ben's cousin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cousin=Topic |

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*Sentence 3:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:3
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Seeing a counsellor is shameful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:o1:1
# text = Seeing a counsellor is shameful
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | a counsellor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsellor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Seeing |  |  |  |  | shameful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Counsellors make you forget the dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:o2:1
# text = Counsellors make you forget the dead
1	Counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Counsellors | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the dead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Counsellors help ordinary people with big feelings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:o3:1
# text = Counsellors help ordinary people with big feelings
1	Counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Counsellors |  | ordinary people |  |  | with big feelings | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary with feeling=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only very ill people in hospital ever see counsellors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t7:o4:1
# text = Only very ill people in hospital ever see counsellors
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | ill people in hospital | counsellors |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsellor=Stimulus |

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