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.
The question
Sentence 1: ★★★ Delphine started at school one in September 2024, school two in March 2025 and school three in September 2025.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Delphine | compound |
| 4 | Delphine | Delphine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 school | flat |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 September | case |
| 10 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 11 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 September | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 school | punct |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 September | conj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 school | flat |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 March | case |
| 16 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 17 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 school | cc |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 March | conj |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 school | flat |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 September | case |
| 22 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 23 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | 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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stay | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 school | flat |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | 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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Six months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nine months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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