Taking too much Lesson 352 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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 .
0 At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. 3 He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of sweets to share and handed them round first. 4 Ella grabbed the biggest slice of birthday cake before anyone else could. 5 Her little sister got the thin end and cried, and Mum made them swap. 6 Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she said sorry, and the next time there was cake she let her sister choose first. 7 Greed is wanting more than your share; envy is being sore that someone else has something good. 8 Both make you do things that leave others with less, and both spoil the very treat you grabbed. 9 Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the person left with the broken ones still notices. 10 Being caught or not caught does not change who went without. 11 When one person takes too much of something shared, others are left with little or nothing. 12 Envy can make you say mean things you do not really believe, like calling something ugly because you want it. 13 Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them. 14 Accusing someone of cheating because you are jealous of their win is unfair and can make them cry. 15 Pushing in a queue can make someone fall and get hurt; the fair fix is to say sorry and go to the back. 16 Shared class things, like a pencil box, belong to everyone in the class. 17 Hiding treats from a brother or sister usually spoils the treat, because guilt comes with it. 18 Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home early, not wanting to play again; sharing it and showing how to use it gently is wiser. 19 Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice. 20 A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for example by sharing or giving back. 21 Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab. ← previous Homework, practice and the team counting on younext → When you want what others have↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/