How to say stop Lesson 388 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 25 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 .
1 I don't like that.» It came out as a squeak. 2 She tried again, standing tall, looking herself in the eye, saying it slowly and loudly. 3 She felt silly, but she kept practising. 4 The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turned round and said it exactly like in the mirror. 5 Tom let go at once. 6 The day after, Tom tried again and Lily said «stop». 7 «You're no fun,» he moaned. 8 Lily wobbled for a second, then said: «I'm fun, but this isn't.» A «stop» doesn't need a long reason; it is reason enough. 9 When another boy pretended not to hear her, she said it louder, then walked straight to Mrs Okafor. 10 «I said stop and he didn't,» she told her, worried it was telling tales. 12 Stop works for other people too. 13 When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and his friends said it with him: «Stop.» The boy stopped. 16 The bravest stop of the week came from Tom himself. 17 His friends dared him to pull Lily's hair again, and he said: «Stop it, I'm not doing that.» They were so surprised that they stopped daring him. 18 In the end the class made a rule and stuck it on the wall: «When someone says stop, we stop.» 19 «Stop» or «no» is a complete answer; it does not need a good reason. 20 Saying stop clearly works best: stand tall, look at the person, use a steady, loud voice. 21 Practising a stop at home makes it come out strong when you need it. 22 A stop is stronger when friends repeat it. 23 Saying stop is often better than pushing, and it doesn't get you into trouble. 24 If someone doesn't stop, the next step is to move away and tell an adult. 25 Telling an adult that someone ignored your stop is not telling tales. 26 Pretending not to hear a stop is still not stopping. 27 You can say stop to your own friends when they dare you to do something unkind. 28 When someone says stop to you, the right thing is to stop at once, even in a game. ← previous Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsilynext → Boys who look at Maddie oddly↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/