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title: The lunchroom and school trips — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The lunchroom and school trips», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many schools are nut-free because even a tiny trace of nut can harm a child with a severe allergy, so you do not bring nuts or peanut butt
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# The lunchroom and school trips

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Lesson 258 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/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/0/) — Many schools are nut-free because even a tiny trace of nut can harm a child with a severe allergy, so you do not bring nuts or peanut butter when the school asks you not to.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/1/) — In the lunch hall you try a little of new food, tell a supervisor about spills so nobody slips, sort rubbish into the right bins, and quietly tell a teacher if a classmate has no lunch, so the school can help without embarrassing them.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/3/) — Farm animals can carry germs such as E. coli, so you touch them only with permission and wash your hands well afterwards.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/4/) — A boy from Glasgow on a school camp feels homesick on the first night; he tells a teacher, and by the next afternoon, busy with canoeing, he feels much better.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/5/) — Many schools are nut-free, because tiny traces of nut can harm a child with a severe allergy.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/6/) — If you do not like the school lunch, you try a little and politely leave the rest, or talk to your parents about a packed lunch.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/7/) — If you forget your lunch, you tell the teacher or the office, who can phone home or give you something to eat.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/8/) — If you spill a drink, you tell a lunch supervisor and help clean it up, because wet floors make people slip.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/9/) — Rubbish goes in the right bin: recycling, compost or general waste.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/10/) — If a classmate has no lunch, you tell a teacher quietly; many schools offer free school meals.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/11/) — On a trip you stay with your buddy all day and tell the teacher if you get separated.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/12/) — If you feel travel sick, you tell the teacher early, sit near the front and look out at the horizon (the far line where the land or sea meets the sky).
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/13/) — In a museum or gallery you walk, talk quietly and touch exhibits only where a sign allows it, because hands can damage precious old things.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/14/) — On a farm you touch animals only with permission and wash your hands well afterwards, because they can carry germs such as E. coli.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/15/) — Before a trip you decide how much money to spend on souvenirs and keep it safe.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/16/) — On a residential trip (one where you stay away overnight) you label your things, and feeling homesick is normal and usually passes quickly.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/17/) — A boy in New York called Sam, who has a nut allergy, swapped lunches with a friend; the cookie had peanuts, his face and throat swelled, and the school nurse had to use his EpiPen (a pen-shaped injection for a dangerous allergic reaction) and call 911.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/19/) — For a child with a serious food allergy, even a small bite of the wrong food can be life-threatening.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/20/) — Children who leave their group on trips get lost quickly in crowds, so you stay with your group and your buddy.

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