Standing by a friend Lesson 370 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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 Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys. 1 Sam doesn't fight anyone. 2 He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes. 3 Later Freddie is blamed for starting a fight he didn't start, and Sam goes with him to the head teacher to say what he saw. 5 One afternoon the Station Road boys corner Sam by the garages. 6 Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing. 7 The boys look at her, look at each other, and drift off muttering. 9 Sam's knees were knocking, but it was the most powerful silence he'd ever heard. 10 Standing by someone takes many shapes. 11 When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch. 12 Lily stays with Chloe in the nurse's room after Chloe's plaits are pulled so hard she cries. 14 And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop. 15 Jake's dad goes into hospital and Jake is angry at everything. 16 Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. 17 Jake mumbles «ta». 18 At the school disco a group laughs at Sam's dancing — which, to be fair, looks like a startled octopus. 19 Lily walks over and dances right next to him, just as badly on purpose. 20 Soon half the class is dancing like octopuses, and the laughing is a different kind. 21 Standing by a friend means being with them and on their side, not fighting for them. 22 Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes over, is a real help. 23 Bullies often stop when the person they pick on is not alone. 24 Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed. 25 A good friend can say no to a bad idea, like revenge, and still be a friend. 26 Revenge usually starts a new round of trouble instead of ending it. 27 People who are going through something hard at home, like a parent in hospital, often act angry; small kindnesses help. 28 Telling your own friends to stop being unkind can be one of the hardest kinds of courage. 29 Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun. 30 Including someone who has been left alone at lunch or play is a simple, kind act. ← previous Getting help is not telling talesnext → Walking away↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/