Exam question 3 · Good secrets and bad secrets

Select the response which preserves another's confidence without recourse to falsehood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, preserve · To what, where: response, confidence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 87 «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 preserves	nsubj
5	preserves	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 response	acl:relcl
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 confidence	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 another	case
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preserves	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 recourse	case
10	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preserves	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 falsehood	case
12	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preserves	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	preserve	present	the response	another's confidence				without recourse; to falsehood	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Beneficiary

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

A full disclosure of the matter to all enquirers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 disclosure	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 disclosure	amod
3	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 matter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disclosure	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 enquirers	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 enquirers	det
9	enquirers	enquirer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disclosure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disclose			the matter				to all enquirers	nom disclosure «communication transitive»: of=patient to=obl

Option 2

A fabricated alternative account of the matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 account	det
2	fabricated	fabricated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 account	amod
3	alternative	alternative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 account	amod
4	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 matter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 account	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	account			the matter					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A denial of the matter contrary to one's own knowledge of the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 denial	det
2	denial	denial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 contrary	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 contrary	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contrary	compound
6	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denial	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 knowledge	case
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knowledge	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knowledge	amod
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contrary	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 truth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knowledge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny			the matter contrary to one's own knowledge of the truth					nom denial «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A statement that the matter is not one's own to disclose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 own	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 matter	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 statement	appos
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 own	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 own	advmod
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 disclose	mark
12	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 own	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a statement					own property	tree rules
2	disclose	to-infinitive	a statement not said here						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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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