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title: Identify the form of church governance whereby leadership is exercis… — Churches of the English-speaking world… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the form of church governance whereby leadership is exercised by elected elders. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Exam question 1 · Churches of the English-speaking world II

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Identify the form of church governance whereby leadership is exercised by elected elders.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, elected elders · **What happens:** identify, exercise, elect, form · **To what, where:** form, leadership, church governance

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Churches of the English-speaking world II» 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/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e1:1
# text = Identify the form of church governance whereby leadership is exercised by elected elders.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 form of church governance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **exercise** | present · passive | elected elders | leadership |  |  |  | whereby *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | church governance |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Congregational

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e1:o1:1
# text = Congregational
1	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Presbyterian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e1:o2:1
# text = Presbyterian
1	Presbyterian	presbyterian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Episcopal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e1:o3:1
# text = Episcopal
1	Episcopal	Episcopal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Papal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e1:o4:1
# text = Papal
1	Papal	papal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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