--- title: Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Good manners are small ways of showing respect. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/) [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/) / Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank… # Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners Lesson 296 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 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/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/0/) — Good manners are small ways of showing respect. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/1/) — They help other people feel welcome, listened to and treated fairly. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/3/) — Greetings change from place to place. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/4/) — A quick «How's it going?» in Canada or the USA is a greeting, not a real question. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/5/) — In New Zealand, the Maori hongi, pressing noses and foreheads, means sharing breath; it is done when you are invited to. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/6/) — At the table, manners are about sharing. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/7/) — A boy in Dublin at his friend's house waits until everyone is seated and served, eats quietly, and asks if anyone would like the last potato before taking it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/8/) — Greet every worker kindly, whatever their job; everyone deserves the same respect. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/10/) — The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/11/) — «How's it going?» said while walking past is a greeting; a quick «Good, thanks!» is the expected answer. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/13/) — When an adult says «this is my partner», a partner means the person they live with or are a couple with. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/14/) — «They are made for each other» means two people fit together very well and love each other. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/15/) — Whether two grown-ups will marry is their private business; asking can make them shy, so if a little one asks, kindly change the subject. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/17/) — When a visitor leaves your home, walk them to the door and say goodbye; it shows they were welcome. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/18/) — Say «Please» when you ask and «Thank you» when you get something, in shops and cafés too; in parts of England people also say «Ta» for thank you. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/19/) — Start with «Excuse me» to politely get a stranger's attention, such as a shop assistant. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/20/) — Wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says to start. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/22/) — Sit with all the chair's legs on the floor; leaning back on a chair can make it tip and you fall. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/23/) — Eat quietly and sip soup from the side of the spoon; loud eating bothers others. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/24/) — At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely instead of grabbing. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/25/) — Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom; it is fine to ask for a fork. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/26/) — A boy in Ireland laughed and talked with his mouth full at dinner; a piece of meat went down the wrong way, and his dad had to give back blows until it came out. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/28/) — Talking or laughing with food in your mouth makes choking more likely. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/29/) — People remember how you treat them, and rudeness to workers hurts them even if they do not show it. - ← previous: [Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/) - next →: [Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)