Wasting food and water Lesson 360 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 Every day for three weeks, Noah in Austin threw his sandwich in the school bin because he did not like the crusts. 1 Nobody noticed, and he thought he had found a clever trick. 3 Then a lunch helper saw the whole sandwich in the bin and told his teacher, who told Mum. 4 At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every morning». 5 Noah said sorry and asked for no crusts, and now he eats it all. 6 Freddie left the tap running the whole time he brushed his teeth. 7 Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several litres a minute — a bucket's worth in a couple of brushings. 8 Freddie turns it off now while he brushes. 9 Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once. 10 But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places. 11 Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody paid for every sandwich in the bin. 12 A running tap can pour away several litres of water every minute. 13 Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water every day. 14 Food thrown away wastes the money, water, land and work that went into growing and making it. 15 Lights left on in empty rooms waste electricity and make the bill higher. 16 Paper is made from trees, so using both sides of a sheet saves trees. 17 At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate. 18 Spending all your money at once leaves nothing for things that come later. 19 Losing or breaking things through carelessness means someone has to pay to replace them. 20 Being hungry makes it harder to think and learn in the afternoon. ← previous Promises to friends and to yourselfnext → Spoiling and losing things↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/