--- title: Being trusted and what to do with things you find — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Being trusted and what to do with things you find», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/) [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/) / Being trusted and what to do with thin… # Being trusted and what to do with things you find Lesson 286 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/0/) — Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/1/) — If you lied before and your parents now check up on you more, the way back is to keep telling the truth, day after day, until trust grows again. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/2/) — You earn trust in small jobs: bringing back the right change and receipt from the shop, behaving well when the teacher steps out, watching a younger sibling, looking after a lent book, being a fair class monitor, or watering a neighbour's plants every day without touching anything else. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/3/) — «Finders keepers, losers weepers» is a playground rhyme, not a rule. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/4/) — Something lost still belongs to its owner, who did not give it away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/5/) — The rule is to make a real effort to find the owner. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/6/) — Example: a girl in Edinburgh finds a fiver in a second-hand coat. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/7/) — She shows her mum, who takes it back to the charity shop. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/8/) — A tiny coin on an empty pavement is different: there is no way to find its owner, so a few cents or pennies may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/9/) — Being fair also means not using what you should not have: if you find tomorrow's test answers, don't look, and give them to the teacher. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/10/) — Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild; keep telling the truth and it will grow back slowly. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/11/) — When sent to the shop, bring back the right change and the receipt; being careful with money shows you can be trusted. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/12/) — Behaving well when no one is watching is what makes you trustworthy. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/13/) — When looking after a younger sibling, keep them in sight and call an adult if anything happens. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/14/) — Take care of things people lend you and return them on time; it shows respect. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/15/) — In a job like class monitor, be fair and don't favour your friends. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/16/) — When trusted with a neighbour's home, do the job as agreed and don't touch other things. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/17/) — «Finders keepers» is a rhyme, not a rule; a lost thing still belongs to its owner. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/18/) — If a machine gives you extra by mistake, tell the shop or school, because someone else paid for it. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/19/) — If you find answers to a test, don't look and give them to the teacher; using them would be cheating. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/20/) — Money found in a second-hand book or coat belongs to someone else; ask an adult what to do. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/21/) — Very small sums with no way to find the owner may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/22/) — Encourage friends to return things that belong to classmates; it makes a class where people trust each other. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/23/) — Share fairly and offer to others first; fairness keeps friendships strong. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/24/) — A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim saved him. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/25/) — A boy in Leeds kept a wallet he found in the park; it held an old man's only money for the week, and the police later traced it back to him. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/26/) — A small child can drown in under a minute, quietly, without splashing or shouting. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/27/) — Keeping something you know belongs to someone else can count as theft, even if you found it. - ← previous: [Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/) - next →: [Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)