Churches of the English-speaking world II
Tests: 8 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 29 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 ✗
Emma says Presbyterians are run by the Archbishop of Canterbury. right?
- 1. No, they are led by elected elders — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, he leads every church in Britain — no support
- 3. Yes, but only in Scotland — no support
- 4. No, they are led by the Pope — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 15: «The Church of England is led by bishops, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as senior bishop and the King as Supreme Governor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bishops» (+3); the same action «lead» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
My friend went to a Quaker meeting and said "nobody said anything for ages, was it broken?" What would you tell her?
- 1. Quakers worship mostly in silence, waiting on God — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The minister was ill so the service was cancelled — no support
- 3. The band forgot their instruments that day — no support
- 4. Quakers are not allowed to speak in public ever — 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 3 · ★★ · right ✓
A lady in a uniform with a brass band is collecting for the poor outside the shops. Which church is she most likely from?
- 1. The Salvation Army — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. The Quakers — no support
- 3. The Orthodox Church — no support
- 4. The Presbyterian Church — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 11: «The Salvation Army was founded in London by William and Catherine Booth and is famous for brass bands and helping the poor; it wears uniforms because it sees i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «army» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
A classmate who is Hindu asks: "if Christians agree, why so many churches?" Best answer?
- 1. Each church worships a different God — no support
- 2. They only split because of money — no support
- 3. They share core beliefs but differ in traditions and leaders — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. They disagree about whether God exists — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 1: «Christians belong to different families of churches called denominations; they share the same core beliefs but have different traditions and ways of organising.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «christians» (+3); the same action «share» (+2); the same thing acted on «same core beliefs» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
lol my cousin's church has drums and a light show, is that even a real church
- 1. No, a real church must have an organ and a choir in robes — no support
- 2. No, only Pentecostal churches are ever allowed to use music — score 2
- 3. Yes, but only if a bishop is present to keep things proper — no support
- 4. Yes, many free churches use modern worship — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 19: «Many churches use purple in Advent and Lent, white or gold at Christmas and Easter, and green in ordinary weeks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «many churches» (+3); the same action «use» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
Your older brother says "Christianity is basically a European thing." Fix it.
- 1. Most Christians today live in Africa, Latin America and Asia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He is right, most Christians are in Europe — no support
- 3. Most Christians today live in North America — no support
- 4. Christianity is only found in the Middle East, where it began long ago — 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 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The churches in your town run one food bank and an Easter walk together. What is this called?
- 1. A denomination — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A reformation — no support
- 3. A schism — no support
- 4. Ecumenism — ✓ 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 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A Pentecostal friend says she speaks in tongues at church. What does her church believe it shows?
- 1. The Holy Spirit's power today — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. That she is the leader of the church — score 2
- 3. That she is not allowed to pray in English — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. That she has learned French at school — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 19: «Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each congregation govern itself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «baptist churches» (+3); the same action «let» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
Theo says: "Quakers and Baptists don't even believe the same about Jesus." What is more accurate?
- 1. They agree on nothing about Jesus — score 3
- 2. They share belief in Jesus who died and rose; their worship differs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Quakers do not believe in Jesus at all — no support
- 4. Baptists believe Jesus never rose again — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 29, line 1: «More church families: Presbyterians, led by elected elders, with roots in Scotland and John Calvin; Pentecostals, with lively worship and a strong stress on th…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «worship» (+4); the same doer «presbyterians» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
why'd the Salvation Army wear army stuff, they're not soldiers
- 1. They saw themselves as an army fighting poverty and sin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. The King ordered all churches to wear them — no support
- 3. They were really part of the British Army and fought in its wars — no support
- 4. Uniforms were cheaper than ordinary clothes — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 11: «The Salvation Army was founded in London by William and Catherine Booth and is famous for brass bands and helping the poor; it wears uniforms because it sees i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fight» (+2); the same doer «army» (+2); the same thing acted on «poverty» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
The judge asks: "Does unity mean all churches must become the same?"
- 1. Yes, unity means every church must close but one — no support
- 2. Yes, all churches must use the same building — score 4
- 3. No, unity means churches should never meet — no support
- 4. No, they can work together and still keep different traditions — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 29, line 14: «Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for example in shared services and charities.», 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 «work together» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the form of church governance whereby leadership is exercised by elected elders.
- 1. Congregational — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Presbyterian — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Episcopal — no support
- 4. Papal — 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the worship of the Religious Society of Friends.
- 1. It is conducted principally in silence — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is conducted principally in chant before icons — no support
- 3. It is conducted principally with brass bands — no support
- 4. It is conducted principally with drums and lights — 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 · right ✓
Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians presently reside.
- 1. Africa, Latin America and Asia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Middle East exclusively — no support
- 3. Western Europe exclusively — no support
- 4. North America exclusively — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following most accurately characterises ecumenism?
- 1. The founding of independent congregations apart from others — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The appointment of bishops over elders in every church — no support
- 3. The division of one church into many rival churches — no support
- 4. The co-operation of churches in pursuit of unity — ✓ 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
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