--- title: Bad news, protests and helping others — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bad news, protests and helping others», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening anywhere in the world, so it can feel as if everything is goi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Bad news, protests and helping others # Bad news, protests and helping others Lesson 32 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 21 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/0/) — The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening anywhere in the world, so it can feel as if everything is going wrong. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/1/) — Grown-ups worry about it too, and sometimes they switch it off to protect you and themselves. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/2/) — Not everything you see is true: some stories and videos are made up or edited on purpose to fool people. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/3/) — Good questions are: who made it, where else is it reported, and is it trying to make me angry? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/4/) — When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sign a petition, or stop work together in a strike. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/) — When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/6/) — Scene: on a Saturday in Toronto, Gran heads off to her shift at the charity shop, your cousin texts asking you to sponsor her 5k run for the hospice, and outside the station a man in a sleeping bag asks for spare change. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/7/) — Mum gives him a smile and buys him a coffee. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/8/) — Families help in different ways, and none of them is wrong. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/9/) — The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because that is what feels important to report. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/10/) — Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/11/) — Fake news means made-up stories or edited pictures spread on purpose to fool people; some people also use the phrase for news they simply dislike. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/12/) — A war is when countries or groups fight with weapons, and ordinary people get hurt and lose their homes; many people help by giving to charities. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/13/) — A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/14/) — A petition is a list of names of people asking for a change; the more people sign it, the harder it is for those in charge to ignore. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/15/) — A strike is when workers stop working together to push for better pay or conditions, and it is legal if they follow the rules. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/16/) — A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/17/) — Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/18/) — Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/19/) — A homeless person has nowhere safe to live, often because of losing a job, a family breaking up or illness. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/20/) — Some grown-ups give money to homeless people, some buy food, and some give to homeless charities; none of these is wrong. - ← previous: [Votes, parties and the people in charge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/) - next →: [Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)