Churches of the English-speaking world I

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 28 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · wrong ✗

Ruby says Catholics and Protestants aren't even Christians cos they're different. right?

1. Yes, only one church in the world can really be Christian — no support
2. No, they share the same core beliefs as Christians — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. No, but only Catholics believe in Jesus — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yes, Protestants left Christianity in 1054 — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 17: «Catholics and Orthodox believe the bread and wine truly become Christ's body and blood; many Protestants see a holy remembrance; this is disputed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «catholics» (+3); the same action «believe» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

wait so who's the boss of the Church of England, the Pope??

1. No, it is led by the Methodist Conference — no support
2. Yes, but only on Sundays and feast days — no support
3. No, it has its own bishops, with the King as Supreme Governor — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, the Pope has led it ever since the Reformation in the 1500s — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 3: «Churches have many kinds of leaders: a vicar or rector in the Church of England, a priest in Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches, a minister in Methodist…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «pope» (+3); the same action «lead» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · right ✓

A classmate from a Greek family shows you a painted picture of a saint she kisses at church. What is it?

1. An icon used in Orthodox worship — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. A charm for good luck in exams — no support
3. A Baptist certificate of baptism — no support
4. A Methodist hymn card — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 9: «The Orthodox Church includes Greek, Russian, Ukrainian and other churches and is known for icons (painted holy pictures of Jesus and the saints, which people k…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «painted holy pictures» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); a different action (counts against) (-4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · wrong ✗

My cousin in Ohio goes to the Episcopal Church. Which church at home is it most like?

1. The Catholic Church — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Orthodox Church — no support
3. The Church of England — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The Baptist church — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · wrong ✗

my grandad reckons Martin Luther started the Orthodox Church. is he right

1. No, Luther's protest led to the Protestant churches — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. No, he founded the Salvation Army — no support
3. Yes, he started it in Greece — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. Yes, he founded it in 1054 when East and West split apart — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 2: «Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shipwrecked, beaten and put in prison, yet he kept going. He wrote letters to the churches — t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+4); the same thing acted on «churches» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

Jack says the Reformation was all the Catholics' fault, end of. What is a fairer answer?

1. It was all the Protestants' fault instead, because they were the ones who left — no support
2. Nobody did anything wrong at all, it was just a friendly change of rules — no support
3. Both sides today admit faults, and it is still discussed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
4. Jack is right, only one side did anything wrong, so that is the end of it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 13: «Today Catholics and Protestants both admit faults from that time, and how to judge the Reformation is still discussed.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «admit» (+4); the same thing acted on «faults» (+4); the same property (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · right ✓

A friend asks why her Methodist church sings so many hymns. Best reason?

1. Charles Wesley wrote thousands of hymns for it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The Pope ordered them to sing in 1054 — no support
3. Hymns replace the Bible in Methodist churches — no support
4. Methodists are not allowed to pray aloud, so they sing instead — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool. Why not as a baby?

1. Baptists think water is bad for babies — no support
2. Baptists baptise people old enough to choose for themselves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
3. Babies are not allowed in Baptist churches — score 1
4. Baptists wait until people can swim well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 14, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 3: «Many churches baptise babies, with parents and godparents making promises, because God's love comes before we understand it; Baptists and many Pentecostals bap…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «baptise» (+4); the same property (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same doer «baptists» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

Which split came first?

1. The Reformation of Martin Luther — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The start of the Methodist Church — no support
3. The start of the Baptist churches — no support
4. The Great Schism between East and West — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

shut up, there's like a million churches, they all hate each other right

1. No, there is really only one church anyway — no support
2. No, they agree on far more than they disagree on — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Yes, they never pray or work together — no support
4. Yes, every church thinks all the others are its enemies — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 5: «For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different church is still a fellow Christian: they agree on far more than they disagree on, and many now…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «churches» (+3); the same action «agree» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

The judge asks: "Why do you think the word catholic was chosen?"

1. It means old, because it is the first church — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It means holy, because the Pope is holy — no support
3. It means universal, a church for everyone everywhere — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It means Roman, because it is in Rome — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the event of 1054 whereby the churches of the East and of the West became separated.

1. The Council of Nicaea — no support
2. The Great Schism — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. The Evangelical Revival — no support
4. The Reformation — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 11: «In 1054 the churches of the East and the West split in what is called the Great Schism.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «great schism» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the term episcopal.

1. It denotes governance by bishops — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It denotes governance by the monarch — no support
3. It denotes governance by elders — no support
4. It denotes governance by the congregation — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the persons to whom the foundation of Methodism is principally attributed.

1. Martin Luther and John Calvin — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. George Fox and Margaret Fell — no support
3. John and Charles Wesley — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. William and Catherine Booth — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Baptist practice of baptism?

1. Believers are baptised by full immersion — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Infants are baptised by the pouring of water — no support
3. Baptism is conferred solely upon clergy — no support
4. No baptism of any kind is practised — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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