When the police come Lesson 384 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 32 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 The knock came at teatime. 1 A police officer stood on Kieran's doorstep asking about a bike stolen from outside the Co-op. 2 Kieran's mum went white, then red. 3 Kieran had not taken it, but he had been there, laughing, while an older boy rode off. 4 The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in her notebook. 7 Let's keep it that way — just a name, not a record.» His mum didn't speak to him all evening, which was worse than shouting. 8 That same month Jake knocked over a fruit stand outside a shop during a scrap. 9 Oranges rolled into the road, and the shopkeeper, Mr Patel, fed up, rang the police. 10 Jake had to meet an officer at school with his head teacher and his mum, and say sorry to the shopkeeper face to face. 11 A week later Maddie was in a park scuffle when a police car pulled up; everyone scattered except Maddie, who stood there with a muddy knee. 12 Her dad said: «If the police come round again, you lose your phone for a month.» 13 Not every visit was bad news. 14 Sam saw a fight in the street, and an officer asked him what he had seen. 16 And one evening Lily saw older boys fighting near her house; when one of them lay still on the pavement and didn't get up, she rang 999 and stayed on the line from her doorway until the ambulance came. 17 The officer said she had done exactly the right thing. 18 Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and stop things getting worse. 19 Fights in the street are a police matter because people get badly hurt and property gets broken. 20 Being honest with the police, staying calm, and calling 999 when someone is hurt or in danger are what sensible people do. 21 Later that term a community police officer came to Jake's school to talk about staying safe and street fights. 22 In the UK the emergency number is 999 (112 also works); in the USA and Canada it is 911, in Australia 000 and in New Zealand 111. 23 999 reaches the police, an ambulance, the fire service or the coastguard (who rescue people at sea). 24 You call 999 when someone is badly hurt, in danger, or a crime is happening right now. 25 A person lying still after a fight may be seriously hurt and needs an ambulance quickly. 26 When you call 999, you say which service you need, where you are, and what has happened, and you answer the operator's questions. 27 Stay at a safe distance from a fight; your job is to call for help, not to step in. 28 A witness should say only what they really saw and heard, not guesses or what others said. 29 Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you questioned by the police. 30 In England and Wales, children aged 10 and over can be charged with a crime. 31 Damaging someone's property during a fight, like a shop stand, usually has to be paid for or put right. 32 Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people. 33 Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying makes things much worse. 34 Parents often set their own consequences, like losing a phone, on top of anything the police do. ← previous Street gangs and loyaltynext → Respect: how it is earned↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/