--- title: Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 523 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/) / 523 # Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 523 of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/). ### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1} «if u live with ur nan ur mum mustn't love u». Right? - **1.** Yes, because a mum who loves you always, always looks after you herself — score 6 - **2.** No, because nans are the only ones who can love you — no support - **3.** No, parents who can't look after a child can still love them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** Yes, unless she visits you on Sundays and birthdays — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 392, line 10: «When a child tells a parent, the most helpful parent listens, thanks them and contacts the school.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «helpful parent» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t1/) ### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2} Kerry-Ann notices Nana is out of breath on the stairs every night. What's the wise move? - **1.** Hide it so nobody takes her away from Nana — score 1 - **2.** Make Nana run in the parents' race next year to get fit again — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Say nothing, as nans never get ill at all — no support - **4.** Help more, and tell a trusted adult she's worried — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 523, line 1: «Kinship care is when a child lives with a relative, like a gran, grandad, aunt or uncle, or a close family friend, because their parents can't look after them.…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «parents» (+4); the same action «race» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t2/) ### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3} What would most likely happen if Jaylon never said sorry to Aunt Denise? - **1.** They'd both keep feeling hurt — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** He'd feel better and better every single day — no support - **3.** She'd forget it the next day — no support - **4.** She'd stop making him dinner — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 482, line 3: «Even old friends must respect your family. At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. Dad puts his burger dow…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «friends» (+6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t3/) ### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4} Gracie's mate: «u called ur gran Mammy?? that's mad, u've got 2 mums». What's the kindest true answer? - **1.** Gracie should never say «Mammy» again to anyone — score -2 - **2.** It's an easy mix-up when Granny looks after you every day — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Gracie is just being silly to upset her mum on purpose — score 2 - **4.** Gracie's mum isn't her mum any more, so it's fine — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 518, line 3: «Many grieving children are scared of forgetting. One night Elin realises she can't remember Mam's voice. She panics. Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «baby» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t4/) ### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5} In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever. What's more real? - **1.** Kids living with grans are always lonely and miserable — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Living with a gran is always perfect, cosy and never ever hard — score 1 - **3.** It can be hard, and it can also be warm and full of family — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Grans are too old to look after anybody at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 520, line 3: «A kid at school asks Aaliyah, «Where's your mum and dad?» «I live in a home.» «What, like an orphan?» Aaliyah feels small. An orphan is a child whose parents h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «kid» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} Imani's grandad can't braid. What does that show? - **1.** Neighbours shouldn't get involved in families — no support - **2.** Kinship carers sometimes need help, and asking is fine — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Imani should stop having braids for good — no support - **4.** Grandad isn't good enough to look after a girl at all, so she must move — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 460, line 1: «When Sam's grandad goes into hospital, Grandad's old Labrador Bramble comes to stay. Every evening she lies across Sam's bedroom door like a furry draught excl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «grandad» (+5); the same property (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t6/) ### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7} Rhys says only «My mam's poorly». Was he lying? - **1.** No, it's true, and he chose what to share — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** No, but he had to tell the teacher — score 1 - **3.** Yes, he should have told his mates absolutely everything — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Yes, because it isn't the whole story — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 454, line 3: «Late truth is still truth. Leo's big brother said Leo broke the telly, and Leo got grounded. A week later the brother couldn't stand it and confessed. Leo was…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «brother» (+3); the same receiver «leo» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} Imani, at the mirror: «I'm tamping!» How does she feel? - **1.** Pleased with how it looks — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Hungry for her tea — no support - **3.** Sleepy — no support - **4.** Furious that her hair looks a mess — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t8/) ### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9} ★★★ Nana is 68 and Kerry-Ann is 9. How old was Nana when Kerry-Ann was born? - **1.** 59 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 77 — no support - **3.** 58 — no support - **4.** 60 — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t9/) ### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10} ★★★ «Tea at Aunt Denise's, no wait, at Malik's aunt's»: tea is for the aunt, her three kids and Malik. Uncle works nights and isn't home. How many plates? - **1.** 3 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 4 — no support - **3.** 6 — no support - **4.** 5 — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t10/) ### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11} Tucker: «church again?? I'm so bored». What would most likely happen if he went anyway with Grandma? - **1.** Grandma would ground him for a month — no support - **2.** Grandma would let him skip forever — no support - **3.** A dull hour, and a laugh with Grandma — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** He'd never be allowed out again — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 514, line 4: «Grief can be shared. In Ohio, after Grandpa dies, Jem's mom is sad all the time, so one Sunday he makes her breakfast in bed: burnt toast and very strong tea.…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «family» (+6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises kinship care? - **1.** The attendance of a child at a residential school during term time — no support - **2.** The care of a child by a relative or close family friend where the parents are unable to provide it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** The care of a child by trained strangers in their own home on a temporary basis — score 6 - **4.** The residence of a child in a staffed institution operating in shifts — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 518, line 1: «When a parent dies, they don't come back; that is the hardest truth there is. The sadness that follows is called grief, and it doesn't go in a straight line. O…», 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 «you» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the meaning of a Kinship Care Order as explained in the lesson. - **1.** The court awards the child a prize in recognition of exemplary conduct at school — no support - **2.** The court instructs the child to return to the parents forthwith — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** The court confirms officially that the carer looks after the child — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** The court imposes a financial penalty upon the kinship carer — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 507, line 16: «Being proud of a sibling's win, and saying so, usually comes back to you.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come back» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Given that a child in kinship care is asked by peers the reason for the arrangement, ascertain what the child is obliged to disclose. - **1.** A written statement signed by the carer — no support - **2.** Nothing true, but a fabricated account — no support - **3.** Only what the child chooses to share — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** The full particulars of the family circumstances — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 523, line 13: «A child chooses what to share; a short true answer like «My mum's poorly» is enough.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «choose» (+2); the same doer «child» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a child who addresses a grandparent as «Mammy» in error. - **1.** The error constitutes grave disrespect towards the mother — no support - **2.** The error is understandable and attributes blame to no one — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The error obliges the mother to discontinue her visits — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **4.** The error requires the grandparent to adopt a different name — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 467, line 10: «Don't let one unkind person make you quit something you enjoy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «quit» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/e4/) - ← previous: [522. Adoption](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/522-adoption/) - next →: [524. «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)