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title: Identify the office held by the Pope. — Weddings, funerals and the people of t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the office held by the Pope. Exam question 2 of lesson 25 «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Weddings, funerals and the people of the church

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Identify the office held by the Pope.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, hold · **To what, where:** office

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church:e2:1
# text = Identify the office held by the Pope.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 office |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | the office *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Pope | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pope=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Senior minister of the Methodist Church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church:e2:o1:1
# text = Senior minister of the Methodist Church
1	Senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	minister	minister	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	Methodist	Methodist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Head of all Christian denominations without exception

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church:e2:o2:1
# text = Head of all Christian denominations without exception
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	denominations	denomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Archbishop of a diocese within the Church of England

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church:e2:o3:1
# text = Archbishop of a diocese within the Church of England
1	Archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	diocese	diocese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church:e2:o4:1
# text = Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church
1	Bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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