Hi @hnjamba
This is a related issue Issue displaying summary table using field-list appearance and read_only on ODK Collect
broadly speaking we wanted to standardize the way our widgets work when read-only option is used and decided not to display question body in such a case if there is no default/calculated answer and this seem to be your case.
Could you maybe attach a small form that presents your issue so that we can think of a different way of solving your problem?