Walking away Lesson 371 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 27 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 On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». 1 Sam's chest burned, because walking away looks like losing. 3 The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea. 4 A fight needs two people; Sam simply did not turn up to it. 5 Jake, who fights about everything, heard a boy call his football team rubbish. 6 His fists itched and his face went hot. 7 For the first time in his life he counted to ten, turned round and left. 8 The boy was left shouting at nobody and looked silly, Jake's mates were amazed, and Jake did not get a detention for once that term. 9 Walking away is not only leaving trouble, it is walking towards safety. 10 When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's. 11 The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddie's mum. 12 Lights, shops and grown-ups are the right direction. 13 Others tried it too. 14 When an older girl pushed Maddie at the park, Maddie remembered her sore nose from last time and walked home, annoyed with herself and proud at the same time; her mum said it was the most grown-up thing she had done all year. 16 In PE Jake was so angry that he stormed off to the changing rooms instead of throwing the ball at Freddie; the PE teacher followed him, said leaving was better than hurting someone, and they talked. 17 When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other side of the playground, and it stopped properly when the teacher on duty noticed and had a word with him. 18 Walking away does not need a big speech. 20 His mate laughed and came round to help with the Lego. 22 A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happen. 23 Walking away is hardest for people who are used to fighting, which is why it counts so much. 25 The best direction to walk away is towards other people, lights, shops and adults. 26 Shopkeepers, teachers on duty and other grown-ups can help children who feel followed or threatened. 27 Counting slowly and leaving the room are real ways to let anger cool down. 28 Not reacting can make a teasing game boring; telling an adult stops it properly. 29 A joke or an everyday reason, like tea time, can be an easy way out of an argument. 30 Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft. 31 Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too. ← previous Standing by a friendnext → Jake, always in bruises↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/