--- title: Your uh-oh feeling — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Your uh-oh feeling», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This feeling is your brain noticing danger signs, sometimes before you can say what they are. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/) [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/) / Your uh-oh feeling # Your uh-oh feeling Lesson 19 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 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/19-uh-oh-feeling/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/1/) — This feeling is your brain noticing danger signs, sometimes before you can say what they are. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/2/) — When you get it, move away, say «no» if you need to, and tell a trusted adult — even if it turns out to be nothing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/3/) — It is okay to say no to any adult, even one you know, if what they ask makes you feel unsafe; being safe matters more than being polite. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/4/) — A surprise, like a birthday present, is happy and will soon be shared; a secret that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable should always be told to a trusted adult. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/5/) — Example: in a park in Phoenix, a girl feels uh-oh when a man she does not know keeps asking her to help find his puppy; she says no, walks to her mum and tells her. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/6/) — A girl in Ohio felt uneasy when an older boy kept asking her to come to an empty place; she ignored the feeling and went, got frightened, and ran back. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/7/) — Next time she listened to the feeling first. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/9/) — Fear makes the heart beat faster, breathing quicken and muscles get ready to move. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/10/) — The uh-oh feeling can come before you understand what is wrong. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/11/) — Trusting your uh-oh feeling and moving away is never wrong, even if it was nothing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/12/) — You can say no to anyone, even an adult you know, if something feels unsafe. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/13/) — Adults who need help usually ask other adults, not children. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/14/) — A secret that makes you feel bad or worried should be told to a trusted adult. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/15/) — A surprise is something nice that everyone will find out about soon. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/16/) — Telling a trusted adult about something that worried you is always the right thing to do. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/17/) — Trusted adults are people like parents, carers, teachers and school counsellors. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/18/) — If the first adult you tell does not help, keep telling other trusted adults until someone does. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/19/) — New but safe things, like a first swimming lesson, can also bring a nervous feeling; talking about it helps you tell the difference. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/20/) — People who ignore their uh-oh feeling sometimes walk into danger they could have avoided. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/21/) — You never need a reason to say no and leave when something feels wrong. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/22/) — When people say two adults are "seeing" each other, they mean the two are a couple, going out together; that is their own private business. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/23/) — When a couple are "splitting up", they are ending their time together; parents who split up may divorce, which means ending their marriage. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/24/) — "You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme that says two children are a couple; you can ask the teaser to stop and tell an adult if it goes on. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/25/) — Worried feelings about news at home are normal, and talking to a trusted adult about them helps. - ← previous: [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)