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# Exam question 1 · Peeking at presents and secrets

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which the reading of another person's diary without consent is wrong.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Diaries contain no information of value

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters:e1:o1:1
# text = Diaries contain no information of value
1	Diaries	diary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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It intrudes upon that person's privacy and breaches trust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters:e1:o2:1
# text = It intrudes upon that person's privacy and breaches trust
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	intrudes	intrude	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	privacy	privacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	breaches	breach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters:e1:o3:1
# text = It is wrong only in the case where its contents are later disclosed to others
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	disclosed	disclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Only diaries of adults are private

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters:e1:o4:1
# text = Only diaries of adults are private
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	diaries	diary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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