Exam question 4 · Whistle-blowing: when to tell

Identify the principal disadvantage of anonymous reporting.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal disadvantage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 45 «Whistle-blowing: when to tell» of the religion ethics 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 disadvantage	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disadvantage	amod
4	disadvantage	disadvantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 reporting	case
6	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reporting	amod
7	reporting	reporting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disadvantage	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal disadvantage of anonymous reporting					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent disadvantage=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

The facility invariably reveals the identity of the person reporting to those accused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facility	det
2	facility	facility	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reveals	nsubj
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 reveals	advmod
4	reveals	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identity	det
6	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reveals	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identity	nmod
10	reporting	report	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 person	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 those	case
12	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 reporting	obl
13	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reveals	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reveal	present	the facility	the identity of the person	invariably property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic
2	report	gerund	the person not said here		to the person	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to that=Co-Agent
3	accuse	participle	the facility not said here			vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The facility may be misused for the communication of false or malicious allegations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facility	det
2	facility	facility	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misused	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 misused	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 misused	aux:pass
5	misused	misuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 communication	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 communication	det
8	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misused	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 allegations	case
10	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 allegations	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 malicious	cc
12	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 false	conj
13	allegations	allegation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 communication	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misuse	may · passive		the facility				for the communication of false allegations	tree rules
2	communicate		false allegations						nom communication «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The facility affords no protection whatsoever to the person reporting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facility	det
2	facility	facility	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affords	nsubj
3	affords	afford	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 protection	det
5	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affords	obj
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 affords	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 reporting	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reporting	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reporting	compound
10	reporting	reporting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affords	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	afford	present	the facility	no protection				to the person reporting; whatsoever property	tree rules

Option 4

The facility is available exclusively to persons in authority

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facility	det
2	facility	facility	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 available	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 available	cop
4	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	4 available	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 persons	case
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 available	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 authority	case
9	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 persons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the facility					to persons in authority; available, exclusively property	tree rules

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