---
title: Select the response which preserves another's confidence without rec… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response which preserves another's confidence without recourse to falsehood. Exam question 3 of lesson 87 «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/e3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/) / [Good secrets and bad secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/) / e3

# Exam question 3 · Good secrets and bad secrets

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Select the response which preserves another's confidence without recourse to falsehood.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, response · **What happens:** select, preserve · **To what, where:** response, confidence

<!-- .vabout -->
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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:e3:1
# text = Select the response which preserves another's confidence without recourse to falsehood.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	preserves	preserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	recourse	recourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A full disclosure of the matter to all enquirers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:e3:o1:1
# text = A full disclosure of the matter to all enquirers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	enquirers	enquirer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A fabricated alternative account of the matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:e3:o2:1
# text = A fabricated alternative account of the matter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fabricated	fabricated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	alternative	alternative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A denial of the matter contrary to one's own knowledge of the truth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:e3:o3:1
# text = A denial of the matter contrary to one's own knowledge of the truth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	denial	denial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A statement that the matter is not one's own to disclose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:e3:o4:1
# text = A statement that the matter is not one's own to disclose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	disclose	disclose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Good secrets and bad secrets, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/e2/)
- next →: [Good secrets and bad secrets, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/e4/)
- ↑ back to [Good secrets and bad secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/)