--- title: Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and you let a parent answer calls or messages fro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/) [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/) / Phones, visiting friends, presents and… # Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes Lesson 222 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/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/0/) — On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and you let a parent answer calls or messages from numbers you do not know, because they could be scammers. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/1/) — At a friend's house you stay in the rooms you are invited into, help tidy up before you leave, and if you break something you tell the adult at once and say sorry. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/2/) — Presents are about kindness, not money: you thank everyone, never compare prices, and protect the giver's feelings, for example when you get the same present twice. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/3/) — A short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two shows real thanks; a message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts, and days out are gifts too. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/4/) — A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks both warmly, and later, with her mum's help and never in front of the givers, swaps one for a different book. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/5/) — On a phone in a shop or on the bus, you speak quietly and keep it short. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/6/) — You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown numbers, because they could be scammers. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/7/) — At a friend's house you stay in the rooms you are invited into. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/8/) — You help tidy up any mess you made before you go home. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/9/) — If you break something at a friend's home, you tell the adult straight away and say sorry. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/10/) — If you get the same present twice, you thank both givers and may exchange one later with your parents' help, never in front of the giver. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/11/) — When you get money or a gift card, you say thank you and may tell the giver what you will buy. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/12/) — When a present comes by post, you phone, message or write soon to say it arrived and that you liked it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/13/) — You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade present is fine. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/14/) — You write a short thank-you note to each giver within a week or two. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/16/) — A message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/17/) — A girl in Florida answered a call from an unknown number and told the caller her parents were away; the caller was a scammer, and the family had to change all their bank details. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/18/) — A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; when he was not home by dark she called the police, who searched the streets for him. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/19/) — Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get money and passwords. - ← previous: [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/) - next →: [Queues, taking turns and interrupting](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)