--- title: Growing, seeing and hearing — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Growing, seeing and hearing», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ages, so friends of the same age can be very different heights. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/) [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/) / Growing, seeing and hearing # Growing, seeing and hearing Lesson 211 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/0/) — Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ages, so friends of the same age can be very different heights. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/1/) — If you cannot see the board clearly at school, you tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test and perhaps glasses. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/2/) — A hearing aid is a small device that helps a person hear; you respect it and never touch it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/3/) — A boy in Halifax squints at the board and sits closer and closer; his teacher notices, he has an eye test, and with new glasses the letters are sharp again. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/4/) — Being shorter, taller, wearing glasses or a hearing aid is normal, and nobody should be teased for it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/5/) — Everyone grows at their own pace. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/6/) — Growth spurts come at different ages, so children of the same age can be very different heights. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/7/) — A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growing earlier. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/8/) — If you cannot see the board at school, you tell a teacher and a parent. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/9/) — Trouble seeing may mean you need an eye test. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/10/) — Glasses help many children see clearly. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/11/) — A hearing aid helps a person hear. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/12/) — You respect someone's hearing aid and do not touch it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/13/) — It helps a person who wears a hearing aid if you face them and speak clearly. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/14/) — Differences in height, glasses and hearing aids are normal and never a reason to tease. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/15/) — A boy in Australia listened to music very loud through earbuds every night; by his teens he had a ringing in his ears that never went away. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/16/) — A girl in Ohio could not see the board well but did not tell anyone; her marks dropped for a year until an eye test showed she just needed glasses. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/17/) — Loud sound for a long time can damage hearing for life, and the damage cannot be repaired. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/18/) — Never push anything like a pencil or hairgrip into your ear; it can hurt the eardrum, the thin skin deep inside the ear that lets you hear, so tell an adult if something is stuck. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/19/) — Many children who struggle in class simply cannot see or hear well, and a check-up can fix it. - ← previous: [First aid, medicine and the sun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/) - next →: [Anger and fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)