--- title: ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in March 2025 and school three in September 2025. How long did she stay at school two? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 521 «Foster care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/521-foster-care/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Foster care](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/521-foster-care/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Foster care ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in March 2025 and school three in September 2025. How long did she stay at school two? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** start, stay · **To what, where:** school This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 521 «Foster care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. 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/everyday/521-foster-care/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in March 2025 and school three in September 2025. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:1 # text = ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in March 2025 and school three in September 2025. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Delphine Delphine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 flat _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 flat _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 23 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | ★ | | | school | march; september | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. *Sentence 2:* How long did she stay at school two? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:2 # text = How long did she stay at school two? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | ★ | | | school | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at school=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Six months ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:o1:1 # text = Six months 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} One year ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:o2:1 # text = One year 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nine months ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:o3:1 # text = Nine months 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Three months ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t8:o4:1 # text = Three months 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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