--- title: Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/) [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/) / Rumours about classmates and what to d… # Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret Lesson 50 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 22 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/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/0/) — Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/1/) — Sometimes you are the one who hears it, sometimes the one tempted to share it, and sometimes the one it is about. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/2/) — Good habits help: check a proper news site, look at the date and the account's name, slow down when a story makes you angry fast, and change nothing to make it funnier. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/3/) — Vivid example: in Wellington, your big brother is about to screenshot his mate's private message and send it to the group. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/4/) — Dad stops him: "Would Tama want that out there? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/5/) — Then it stays between you two, bro." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/6/) — Gossip that hurts is different from telling a trusted grown-up something worrying; if someone may be in danger, telling is the right thing, not tattling. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/7/) — And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/8/) — Celebrities are real people with real feelings, and many have said cruel comments hurt them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/9/) — Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/10/) — If a friend is being gossiped about, be kind to her and tell a trusted adult rather than repeating the cruel words. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/11/) — Accounts that post gossip about real pupils should not be followed or shared; they should be reported. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/12/) — "Don't believe everything you read, and only half of what you see" is an old saying for being a little doubtful of exciting stories. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/13/) — Ghost stories at a sleepover are fun because everyone knows they are stories, and nobody gets hurt. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/14/) — Telling a trusted adult that someone may be in danger is not gossip; it helps. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/15/) — Before you tell a story about someone, imagine it is about you. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/16/) — Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats". - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/17/) — Private messages are private; screenshotting and sharing them breaks a friend's trust. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/18/) — Some stories are written to make you angry so that you share them fast; anger is a sign to slow down. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/19/) — If you spread something hurtful, say sorry and tell people it wasn't true; you can also simply refuse to listen to cruel gossip. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/20/) — "Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a parody account is a joke copying a real name. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/21/) — Health is the most private story of all, children should be left out of gossip, and judging someone by what they own is unfair. - ← previous: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/) - next →: [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)