Promises to family Lesson 358 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 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 Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build a Lego rocket after school. 1 Then his mates knocked and he went to the skate park. 2 Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open. 3 When Oliver came home, Alfie was crying and Mum just looked sad. 4 Oliver said sorry, and on Saturday he played with Alfie the whole morning — the rocket, two spaceships and a moon base. 5 Maya promised to feed the cat while Mum was at work and forgot. 6 The cat meowed all night and Mum was cross. 7 Maya grumbled «it's only one dinner» and went to bed in a huff, but in the morning she apologised, fed him first thing, and set a reminder on the kitchen clock so it would not happen again. 8 A promise is your word that someone can plan around. 9 To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting, disappointment or hunger. 10 Lucy promised to tidy her room before going out and didn't, so she could not go out the next day. 11 Sam forgot to call Gran, who waited by the phone all evening; he called her the next day and said sorry. 12 Will went to the park instead of helping Dad wash the car; he said sorry and helped the next week. 14 A no-show leaves the other person guessing. 15 A promise is a commitment that another person relies on. 16 Promises to small children matter as much as promises to adults; they remember and wait. 18 If you need to break a plan, telling the person in advance is kinder than not turning up. 19 Telling a secret you promised to keep can hurt a friendship badly. 20 Something you borrow is a promise to give it back. 21 Changing a habit, such as teasing, usually takes many tries. 22 Reminders, like a note or an alarm, help people keep promises when they are forgetful. 23 Keeping small promises builds trust, so people believe your bigger ones. ← previous Snooping on phones, diaries and lettersnext → Promises to friends and to yourself↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/