--- title: Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults lis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Standing up for yourself, nightmares a… # Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark Lesson 100 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/1/) — You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults listen. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/2/) — Be kind to yourself too: pictures online show only people's best moments, and bodies come in many shapes; looking after yours with good food, exercise and sleep matters more than comparing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/3/) — Nightmares can feel very real, but they are only dreams and cannot hurt you; turning on a light, going to a parent, calm music and imagining a better ending all help, and monsters under the bed are not real. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/4/) — A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; she draws it, then draws the wolf turning into a friendly dog that walks her home, and the nightmare stops coming back. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/5/) — If someone pushes in front of you, politely say you were there first or tell an adult. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/6/) — Calm words work better than pushing back. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/8/) — Staying silent about an unkind joke about a group of people can seem like agreement. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/9/) — You can disagree with an adult if you are polite and explain your reason calmly. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/10/) — Pictures online show only people's best moments. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/11/) — Bodies come in many shapes, and all deserve care with good food, exercise and sleep. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/12/) — Dreams can feel real, but they cannot hurt you. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/13/) — Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop it coming back. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/14/) — Cuddling a toy, calm music or reading helps the body relax after a bad dream. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/15/) — Monsters are not real, and looking with a torch and a parent shows there is nothing there. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/16/) — Turning on lights as you go makes the dark less scary. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/17/) — A boy in Ohio watched a kid being pushed around every day and said nothing; one day the kid was hurt badly, and the boy wished he had told a teacher sooner. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/18/) — A girl in Wales watched a scary film late at night, then could not sleep for a week and was too tired to learn. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/19/) — Telling an adult when you see someone being hurt is standing up for them, and it is not telling tales. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/20/) — Scary films and videos before bed often cause nightmares and bad sleep in children. - ← previous: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/) - next →: [Responsibility, independence and curiosity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)