--- title: Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Feelings like jealousy, boredom and excitement are normal. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/) [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/) / Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard mome… # Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments Lesson 292 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 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/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/0/) — Feelings like jealousy, boredom and excitement are normal. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/1/) — What matters is what you do with them, and there is almost always a kind, sensible thing to do. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/2/) — When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and soothing it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/3/) — That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents love the older child less. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/4/) — Asking for a little special time together helps. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/5/) — Boredom is not a problem to fix with a screen. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/6/) — It is often the start of creativity: on a rainy afternoon a boy in Manchester turned a sofa and two blankets into a castle and wrote a story about it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/8/) — Clear words and trusted adults help most in these moments. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/9/) — Death means the body has stopped working forever; the person or animal cannot come back. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/10/) — It is not like sleeping, and sleeping does not cause death. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/11/) — Babies need a lot of care, so parents give them much time, but they still love their older children just as much. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/12/) — If you feel jealous of a new baby, ask a parent for some special time with just you. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/13/) — Boredom is often the start of creativity: you can build a den, read, draw, write a story, do a puzzle or help cook. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/14/) — When you are excited, wait for a pause in the talk before you speak; people feel respected when they can finish. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/15/) — Boasting about having more things makes others feel small and pushes friends away; sharing the fun brings them closer. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/16/) — Older siblings need time with friends their own age; find your own fun and do something with them another time. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/18/) — After a pet dies, it helps to wait a while and talk with your family before getting a new one; a new pet does not replace the old one. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/19/) — Death means the body has stopped working forever and cannot start again; it is not the same as sleeping. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/21/) — If someone offers you a cigarette, a vape or alcohol, say «No thanks» and walk away; they harm a growing body. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/22/) — A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped eating and talking at school; when he finally told his dad, they started special time together and he felt much better. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/23/) — A girl in Ohio, bored on a summer day, climbed onto the roof to look around; she slipped on the gutter and broke her arm. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/24/) — Bottled-up feelings can show up as tummy aches, bad sleep or anger, which is why talking helps. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/25/) — Many accidents happen when bored children look for excitement in risky places. - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/) - next →: [Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)