Showing off Lesson 390 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 Jake climbed onto the shed roof at the back of the playing field. 2 He landed badly, twisted his ankle and spent the next two weeks on crutches. 3 The worst part? 4 The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. 5 Jake felt brave for one second and silly for fourteen days. 6 Showing off was everywhere that term. 7 Maddie lifted the heaviest kit bag in PE to prove how strong she was, pulled a muscle in her back and missed the football match she'd waited a month for. 8 Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye. 9 She was fine after a cold compress, but Tom was sent to the head and his mates went very quiet. 10 Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up. 11 Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard every word. 12 Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes. 13 To Jake it was a joke. 14 To Sam it wasn't: he was frightened and cried, and Jake felt awful and said sorry properly. 15 Kieran rolled up his sleeve to show his scar from a street fight like it was a medal. 16 Lily said: «That looks like it hurt a lot.» Kieran went quiet and admitted it had, and that he had been scared. 17 A scar is not a trophy. 19 The boy he was racing came back and helped him up. 20 Mrs Okafor asked the class why people show off. 21 After the giggles, they worked it out: people show off when they want to be liked or noticed. 22 Not every show-off is bad. 23 Maddie and Jake once had a monkey-bars contest, both fell off into the bark chips, both laughed and decided being friends was better than winning. 24 So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger. 25 People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough. 26 Showing off with danger, like jumping off roofs, often ends in injuries. 27 Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the back. 28 Flicking rulers or throwing things near faces can injure eyes. 29 Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you into trouble. 31 Scars from fights are reminders of pain and fear, not prizes. 32 Friendly contests are fun when nobody gets hurt and nobody needs to win. 33 Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks. 34 Liking someone as they are makes it less likely they will feel they must show off. ← previous Boys who look at Maddie oddlynext → «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/