--- title: Balance and falling well — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Balance and falling well», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your centre of gravity) is above the area between your feet. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/) [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/) / Balance and falling well # Balance and falling well Lesson 2 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/2-balance-and-falling-well/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/0/) — You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your centre of gravity) is above the area between your feet. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/1/) — Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and your centre lower, so you are much harder to knock over. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/2/) — Your inner ear, your eyes and the feeling in your feet and muscles tell your brain how you are standing, and it corrects you all the time. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/3/) — If you do fall, the trick is to spread the bump over a big soft part of your body and over a little more time: tuck your chin, bend your knees and elbows, and roll onto your side or bottom. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/4/) — Catching yourself on one straight, stiff arm puts all the force into a small wrist, which is why broken wrists are so common; judo students practise falling for this reason. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/6/) — A boy in Texas stood on a wobbly chair on top of a table to reach a shelf; the chair tipped, he fell onto the hard floor and needed stitches in his chin. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/8/) — Standing with your feet apart gives you a wider base and better balance. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/9/) — Bending your knees lowers your centre of gravity and makes you steadier. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/10/) — The inner ear has a balance organ that senses how your head moves and tilts. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/11/) — Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/12/) — A tightrope walker carries a long pole because it helps her keep her centre of gravity over the rope. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/13/) — Your eyes help you balance, so balancing is harder with your eyes closed. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/14/) — Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/15/) — Tucking your chin to your chest helps keep your head from hitting the ground. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/16/) — Rolling as you land spreads the force over a bigger part of your body. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/17/) — Landing on soft, padded parts like your bottom, thigh and side hurts less than landing on bones. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/18/) — Bending your knees when you land from a jump makes the landing softer. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/19/) — Judo and other martial arts teach students how to fall safely. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/20/) — After a bang on the head, feeling sick, dizzy or very sleepy is a warning sign: tell an adult at once, because you may need a doctor. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/21/) — Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a wrist. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/22/) — Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool. - ← previous: [Going up and down stairs safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)