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title: Shops, restaurants and libraries — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Shops, restaurants and libraries», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In shops and other shared places there are a few simple rules: wait your turn, be honest with money, keep your card PIN secret, and spea
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# Shops, restaurants and libraries

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Lesson 273 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/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/0/) — In shops and other shared places there are a few simple rules: wait your turn, be honest with money, keep your card PIN secret, and speak quietly where others are reading.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/1/) — If you get lost in a shop or mall, you stay where you are or go to a till or checkout and tell a staff member, who can help find your family.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/2/) — Some rules differ by country: in the USA the price on the shelf often does not include sales tax, which is added at the checkout, and people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent in a restaurant.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/3/) — A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I think you gave me too much," and the cashier thanks him.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/4/) — If you get lost in a shop or mall, you stay where you are or go to a till or checkout and tell a staff member.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/5/) — If you get too much change, you tell the cashier and give it back, because that is honest.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/6/) — When you pay with cash, you count your money first and check your change.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/7/) — When you pay by card, you keep the PIN secret and cover the keypad, because others could watch and steal it.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/8/) — You wait your turn in a queue or line at the checkout, because pushing in is rude.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/9/) — In the USA the shelf price may not include sales tax, which is added at the checkout.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/10/) — On escalators in malls you hold the rail and never run up the down escalator.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/11/) — In US restaurants people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent, because it is part of the waiter's pay.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/12/) — In the library you speak quietly, because others are reading and studying.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/13/) — A late library book is returned as soon as possible, because some libraries charge fines.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/14/) — A damaged library book is shown to the librarian, who can fix or replace it.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/15/) — A five-year-old in a big mall in Ohio wandered off to look at toys and went out of the shop to find his mum; it took security an hour to find him, and his mum was terrified.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/16/) — A girl in Sydney let a stranger stand close behind her at a cash machine; he saw her mum's PIN and later money was taken from the account.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/17/) — A lost child is found fastest when they stay inside the shop or go to a till, because that is where staff and parents look first.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/18/) — Someone who sees a PIN and gets the card can take money, and getting it back can be slow or impossible.

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