--- title: Growing up, honesty and manners — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Growing up, honesty and manners», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: As children grow, their bodies start to change, and this happens to everyone, at different times and speeds. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/) [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/) / Growing up, honesty and manners # Growing up, honesty and manners Lesson 104 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/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/0/) — As children grow, their bodies start to change, and this happens to everyone, at different times and speeds. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/1/) — A parent, the school nurse or a doctor is the right person to ask about these changes, and nobody should be teased for growing faster or slower. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/2/) — Honesty and good manners show respect: telling the truth keeps trust, and lost things go back to their owners. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/3/) — For example, a girl in Brisbane who finds a purse in the school playground takes it straight to the office, because its owner will be looking for it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/4/) — All bodies change as they grow, and it is normal. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/5/) — A parent, the school nurse or a doctor can answer questions about a changing body. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/6/) — Everyone grows at their own speed, so bodies change at different times. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/7/) — Telling the truth, even when you might be in trouble, keeps people's trust. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/8/) — Lies make trust hard to rebuild once people find out. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/9/) — Money or something valuable found at school should go to a teacher or the office. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/10/) — The owner of a lost thing will be looking for it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/12/) — Everyone deserves respect, whatever they look like. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/13/) — Please and thank you matter at home with your family, not only outside. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/14/) — A boy in Texas lied that he had done his homework for weeks; when the test came he could not do any of it and had to stay behind for extra classes. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/16/) — Once people catch you lying, it takes a long time for them to trust you again. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/17/) — Hiding that you do not understand schoolwork makes the gaps bigger and harder to fix later. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/18/) — Private family news, such as relatives getting a divorce, is not yours to pass on. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/19/) — Liking someone «like like» means having a crush, liking them as more than a friend; a friend who tells you this trusts you to keep it private. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/20/) — When parents are not getting on, it is never the child's fault, and a trusted adult can help. - ← previous: [Screens, sleep, fairness and differences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/103-screens-fairness-and-differences/) - next →: [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)