--- title: Remembering details — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Remembering details», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Noticing details means looking carefully and putting what you see into words, which helps you remember it. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/) [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/) / Remembering details # Remembering details Lesson 18 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/18-remembering-details/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/0/) — Noticing details means looking carefully and putting what you see into words, which helps you remember it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/1/) — Useful details about a person: their height compared with someone you know, their hair, their clothes and colours, and anything special such as glasses or a cap with a logo. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/3/) — Memory fades and gets mixed up quickly, so tell an adult or write down what you saw as soon as you can. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/4/) — Example: a boy in Manchester sees a bike being stolen and says to himself, «tall man, green hoodie, white trainers, rode off towards the park» — then tells a teacher straight away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/5/) — A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he could not remember the colour or the plate; the police had little to go on. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/6/) — A girl in Edinburgh got lost but knew her full name, her mum's name and phone number by heart; a police officer called her mum and she was home within an hour. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/7/) — Putting what you see into words helps you remember it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/8/) — Clothes, colours and special marks are easy details to notice about a person. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/9/) — Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is easier than guessing a number. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/10/) — Every car has a number plate, also called a licence plate, with letters and numbers. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/11/) — The colour and type of a vehicle are useful details for the police. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/12/) — The direction someone went is an important detail. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/13/) — Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them down soon. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/14/) — Memories can change when people talk about them, so tell what you saw yourself, not what others said. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/15/) — If you are not sure about a detail, it is honest and helpful to say «I'm not sure». - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/16/) — Memory games, like looking at objects on a tray and then naming them, train your attention. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/17/) — Never follow a person or a car to get details; staying safe comes first. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/18/) — Children who know their full name, address and a parent's phone number by heart are found and helped much faster. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/19/) — Small details like a car's colour, a number plate or what someone wore help police a lot. - ← previous: [What to do if you are lost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/) - next →: [Your uh-oh feeling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)