--- title: Home myths, first aid and weather warnings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some popular beliefs about home safety are simply wrong, and believing them can hurt you: a switch can fail, germs do not wait --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/) [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/) / Home myths, first aid and weather warn… # Home myths, first aid and weather warnings Lesson 120 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/0/) — Some popular beliefs about home safety are simply wrong, and believing them can hurt you: a switch can fail, germs do not wait five seconds, and an open door does not stop fire. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/1/) — A good habit is to ask «how would this really work?»: germs are on the floor already, so they get onto dropped food at once, and smoke goes wherever air goes, so only a closed door slows it down. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/2/) — Small injuries at home have simple first aid: press a clean cloth on a cut to stop the bleeding, and let a grown-up take out a splinter with clean tweezers. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/3/) — Big weather dangers come with warnings, and a family that follows its emergency plan and listens to official alerts stays safe. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/4/) — For example, in a flood a family in Louisiana goes upstairs instead of wading outside, because even shallow floodwater can be fast, dirty and electrified. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/5/) — A switch can fail, so an appliance is unplugged before anyone touches the inside. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/6/) — Cleaning products such as bleach must never be drunk, even a little, because they burn the throat. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/7/) — The five-second rule is not true: germs stick to dropped food at once, so if in doubt, throw it away. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/8/) — Only a closed door slows a fire, and fire doors are best; an open door lets smoke through. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/10/) — A splinter should be removed by a grown-up with clean tweezers, because dirty splinters get infected. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/11/) — Icy steps make people fall, so walk carefully and tell a grown-up to grit or salt them, which means spreading tiny stones or salt so feet grip and the ice melts. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/12/) — During a hurricane, tornado or bushfire warning, the family follows its emergency plan and listens to official alerts. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/13/) — In a flood, move up to higher floors and never walk in floodwater, which can be fast, dirty and electrified. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/14/) — A boy in Leeds believed the myth that you should put butter on a burn; he did, and the burn blistered badly until he cooled it with water at the doctor's. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/15/) — A girl in Ohio ignored a "wet floor" sign at the shopping centre; she slipped and broke her wrist. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/16/) — Warning signs and labels are there because people have been hurt in that exact way before. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/17/) — Common home first-aid myths, such as butter on burns or tipping the head back for nosebleeds, can make injuries worse; a burn needs cool running water for twenty minutes. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/18/) — If someone faints, get an adult, lay them down and raise their legs a little. - ← previous: [Bedroom, living room and manners at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/) - next →: [Greeting adults and teachers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)