--- title: Foster care — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Foster care», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Foster care # Foster care Lesson 521 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 43 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/521-foster-care/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/0/) — Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/1/) — They are checked and trained first, and a social worker visits to make sure the child is safe and well. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/2/) — Tayla arrives at her new foster home with everything she owns in two black bin bags. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/3/) — Her foster mum, Jan, takes one look and fetches a proper suitcase with wheels. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/5/) — Trust grows slowly, and small kind acts help it grow. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/6/) — Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA). - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/8/) — He still loves his birth mom, the mom he was born to, and he sees her at contact visits. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/9/) — Reece sees his birth mum every two weeks at a family centre, with a worker in the room. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/11/) — He loves her and he's angry with her, both in the same hour. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/12/) — Loving your foster family and your birth family, and being cross too, are all allowed. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/13/) — Not every placement works. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/14/) — Cormac's foster carers shout at him and leave him at home on family days out. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/15/) — He's scared that if he tells, he'll be moved again. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/16/) — He tells his social worker anyway. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/17/) — She listens, writes it all down, and within a fortnight he moves to a new family, the Okafors. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/18/) — It's hard to start again, but he is safe, and every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/19/) — Delphine starts at her third school in two years. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/21/) — «Thinking this one'll be different is delulu» («delulu» means kidding yourself). - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/22/) — She makes one friend in the first week, and that's enough to start. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/23/) — Good days happen too. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/24/) — Mitch's foster dad runs behind his bike, holding the seat, and lets go. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/25/) — «You beauty, you got it!» he shouts (Australian for brilliant, well done). - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/26/) — Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sleeps on Kayden's bed from the first night. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/28/) — Tyrese has never been on holiday. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/29/) — His foster carer says, «We're going to Cornwall, you're coming.» «The hotel pool's peng,» he tells his mates after (London slang for great). - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/30/) — Ciara and her little brother Cian are in different foster homes, because no carer had room for both. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/31/) — They see each other every two weeks and video-call in between. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/32/) — She asks her social worker if they can meet more. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/33/) — Sometimes, the plan becomes long-term. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/34/) — Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you to stay with them long-term, until you're grown up.» «Like... forever?» Amara whispers. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/35/) — Thrilled and scared at once, she makes a list of questions, and the social worker answers every one. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/36/) — Foster carers look after children in their own homes when the children's parents can't. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/37/) — Foster carers are checked and trained, and social workers visit to make sure children are safe. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/38/) — Some foster placements are short, some long-term, until the child grows up. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/39/) — Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; small kind acts help trust grow. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/40/) — A birth parent is the parent a child was born to; contact visits let children in care see them. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/41/) — Children can love their foster family and their birth family, and feel angry too. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/42/) — Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placement isn't safe, tell a social worker or teacher. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/43/) — Moving school is hard; making one friend first helps. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/44/) — Brothers and sisters in care are sometimes placed apart, and they should still see each other. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/45/) — Foster families include children in ordinary family life, like holidays, pets and birthdays. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/46/) — Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are listened to. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/47/) — «Y'all» means you all, «delulu» means kidding yourself, «you beauty» is Australian for brilliant, «peng» is London slang for great, and «eh» is a word Canadians often add to the end of a sentence. - ← previous: [Living in a children's home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/) - 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