--- title: What to do if you are lost — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What to do if you are lost», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Everyone gets lost sometimes; the most important thing is to stay calm and stop, because it is much easier to find someone who stays in one pl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/) [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/) / What to do if you are lost # What to do if you are lost Lesson 17 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/17-if-you-are-lost/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/0/) — Everyone gets lost sometimes; the most important thing is to stay calm and stop, because it is much easier to find someone who stays in one place. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/1/) — Look for a safe adult: a police officer, a shop worker at the till or with a name badge, a security guard, or a parent with children. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/2/) — Know your parent's phone number and your address by heart, so that a helper can call your family. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/3/) — Never go off with anyone, however friendly; a real helper calls your family or keeps you somewhere busy and public, like the shop's information desk. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/5/) — Example: a girl lost in a big shop in Melbourne walks to the nearest checkout, tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, and waits there. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/6/) — A girl lost at a fair in Texas kept walking and searching for her mum; she ended up far from where she started, and it took much longer for her family to find her. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/7/) — A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask a worker or a mum with children instead. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/8/) — If you are lost, stay calm and stay in one place, because a moving person is harder to find. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/9/) — Searchers find people faster when they stay put, because searchers start looking where the person was last seen. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/10/) — Safe adults to ask include police officers, shop workers with badges, security guards, and parents with children. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/11/) — Before going somewhere busy, a family can agree on a meeting place in case they get separated. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/12/) — Knowing your parent's phone number and your address by heart lets a helper contact your family. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/13/) — Never go off with someone who offers to take you away to look for your parents. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/14/) — A real helper calls your family or keeps you in a busy public place, such as an information desk. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/15/) — If you are lost in the wild, stay put, keep warm and dry, and make noise. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/16/) — Three blasts on a whistle is a widely known signal for help. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/17/) — A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/18/) — Bright clothes make it easier for searchers to see you outdoors. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/21/) — Safe people to ask for help when lost are workers in uniform, staff with name badges and parents with children. - ← previous: [Finding your way with landmarks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/) - next →: [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)