--- title: Eyes up: noticing your surroundings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening around you, so that you spot trouble early and have time to act. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/) [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/) / Eyes up: noticing your surroundings # Eyes up: noticing your surroundings Lesson 11 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/11-eyes-up/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/0/) — Being aware means using your eyes and ears to know what is happening around you, so that you spot trouble early and have time to act. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/1/) — Your brain can pay close attention to only a few things at once; when your eyes are on a screen, you can miss a car, a step or a friend waving right in front of you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/2/) — Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked them to count the passes; about half of them did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walking right through the middle. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/3/) — A good habit: when you walk, cross a road or enter a new place, look up, look around and notice what is normal — then anything that changes stands out. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/6/) — Attention is limited: the brain cannot focus fully on two demanding things at the same time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/7/) — People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice less around them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/8/) — Missing something in plain sight because your attention is elsewhere is called inattentional blindness. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/9/) — Loud music in headphones can hide the sound of a car, a bike bell or a shout. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/10/) — Side vision (peripheral vision) is good at spotting movement but poor at seeing detail. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/11/) — When you enter a building, noticing where the exits are helps you leave quickly in an emergency. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/12/) — Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something unusual. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/13/) — Before crossing a road, stop, put away your phone, and look and listen in both directions. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/14/) — In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so the nearest cars come from the left. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/15/) — In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so the nearest cars come from the right. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/16/) — Every year many walkers are hurt because they were looking at a phone instead of the road. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/17/) — When your eyes are on a screen, you notice much less of what is happening around you, even things straight ahead. - ← previous: [Reasoning about the body moving in the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/) - next →: [Sounds that warn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)