Exam question 1 · Peeking at presents and secrets

Identify the principal reason for which the reading of another person's diary without consent is wrong.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, reading · What happens: identify, be, read · To what, where: principal reason, diary

This is exam question 1 of lesson 356 «Peeking at presents and secrets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wrong	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reading	det
8	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrong	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 diary	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 diary	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 person	case
13	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reading	nmod
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 consent	case
15	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 diary	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wrong	cop
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	is	present	the reading of another person's diary without consent		for the principal reason; wrong property	tree rules
3	read			another person's diary without consent		nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Option 1

Diaries contain no information of value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diaries	diary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 information	det
4	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 value	case
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 information	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Diaries	no information of value					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot information=Theme
2	inform		value						nom information «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It intrudes upon that person's privacy and breaches trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 intrudes	nsubj
2	intrudes	intrude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 privacy	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 privacy	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 person	case
7	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intrudes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 breaches	cc
9	breaches	breach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 intrudes	conj
10	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intrude	present	It					upon that person's privacy	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	breach	present		trust					tree rules

Option 3

It is wrong only in the case where its contents are later disclosed to others

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 case	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 disclosed	advmod
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 contents	nmod:poss
10	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 disclosed	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 disclosed	aux:pass
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 disclosed	advmod
13	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 case	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 others	case
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 disclosed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the case		wrong property	tree rules
2	disclose	present · passive		case's contents	others			late property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to other=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only diaries of adults are private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 diaries	advmod
2	diaries	diary	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 private	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 adults	case
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 diaries	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 private	cop
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	diaries of adults					private property	tree rules

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