--- title: Presbyterian churches are led by elected elders, called presbyters. — Churches of the English-speaking world II · tree and pragmatics description: Presbyterian churches are led by elected elders, called presbyters. Who acts: elected elders. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Churches of the English-speaking world…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/) / 5 # Churches of the English-speaking world II, sentence 5 Presbyterian churches are led by elected elders, called presbyters. **Who acts:** elected elders · **What happens:** lead, elect, call · **To what, where:** Presbyterian churches, presbyters · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elected elders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson:5 # text = Presbyterian churches are led by elected elders, called presbyters. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Presbyterian presbyterian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 presbyters presbyter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | present · passive | elected elders | Presbyterian churches | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | elected elders *not said here* | presbyters | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Churches of the English-speaking world…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/4/) - next →: [Churches of the English-speaking world…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/)