--- title: Helpers in town and building sites — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Helpers in town and building sites», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters — and they can help be --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/) [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/) / Helpers in town and building sites # Helpers in town and building sites Lesson 274 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/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/0/) — Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters — and they can help best when you know what to tell them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/1/) — In a hospital emergency department the most serious cases are seen first, so a person with a small cut may wait while someone very ill goes ahead. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/2/) — A firefighter in a mask and breathing gear may look scary, but you never hide from them in a fire; you go towards them or call out, because they have come to save you. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/3/) — Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machine cannot see a child. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/4/) — A girl in Austin tells the doctor, "It hurts here, on the right side of my tummy, since yesterday," and the doctor quickly knows where to look. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/5/) — You learn your postcode or ZIP code, because it helps letters to be delivered quickly. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/6/) — You tell the doctor clearly where it hurts, because it helps them find out what is wrong. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/7/) — In the emergency department the most serious cases are seen first; it is not first come, first served. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/8/) — A cast is kept dry, and you tell an adult if the arm hurts more, because the cast helps the bone heal. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/9/) — If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they can stop it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/10/) — A firefighter in full gear may look scary but is there to help, and children should never hide from them in a fire. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/11/) — You never play with a fire hydrant, because it is for firefighters; opening one for fun wastes water and can leave firefighters without enough water pressure to fight a fire. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/12/) — When firefighters visit school, you ask questions and learn what to do in a fire. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/13/) — You never go inside the fence of a construction site, because machines, holes and falling things are dangerous. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/14/) — You walk around a hole in the road, because you could fall in. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/15/) — You stay well away from a big machine that is reversing, because the driver cannot see you. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/16/) — A hard hat area sign means stay out; only workers with protection may enter. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/17/) — A boy in Colorado kept his cast in the bath because it felt itchy; the skin underneath got sore and infected, and the cast had to be cut off and done again. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/18/) — A girl in Dublin did not mention to the doctor that her tummy pain had moved to the lower right side; the next day it was much worse and it turned out to be appendicitis needing surgery. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/19/) — A wet cast can rub and infect the skin under it, so a cast must be kept dry. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/21/) — Doctors depend on what the patient tells them, so leaving out how a pain feels or where it moved can delay the right treatment. - ← previous: [Shops, restaurants and libraries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/) - next →: [Railway crossings, maps and addresses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)