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title: Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians… — Churches of the English-speaking world… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians presently reside. Exam question 3 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's c
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# Exam question 3 · Churches of the English-speaking world II

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Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians presently reside.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, majority · **What happens:** ascertain, reside · **To what, where:** regions

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians presently reside.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	reside	reside	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the regions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Topic |
| 2 | **reside** | present | the majority of the world's Christians |  |  |  |  | presently, wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Africa, Latin America and Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e3:o1:1
# text = Africa, Latin America and Asia
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Middle East exclusively

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e3:o2:1
# text = The Middle East exclusively
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Western Europe exclusively

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e3:o3:1
# text = Western Europe exclusively
1	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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North America exclusively

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii:e3:o4:1
# text = North America exclusively
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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