--- title: Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Town is full of shared places, and good manners help everyone share them: wait yo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/) [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/) / Good manners and safety in town: shops… # Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds Lesson 311 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/0/) — Town is full of shared places, and good manners help everyone share them: wait your turn in a line, speak quietly in the library, and tell the doctor clearly where it hurts. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/1/) — In the USA people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent for the waiter in a sit-down restaurant, because tips are part of a waiter's pay. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/2/) — On a $40 meal, that is about $6 to $8. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/3/) — Town also asks for some care: keep your money in a zipped pocket or a wallet so it is harder to lose or steal, and in a big crowd at a festival or match hold an adult's hand and agree a meeting point before you go in. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/5/) — At the checkout, wait your turn in the line; pushing in is rude. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/6/) — In the USA people usually tip a waiter about 15 to 20 percent of the bill, because tips are part of the waiter's pay. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/9/) — Keep money in a zipped pocket or wallet, where it is harder to lose or steal. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/10/) — In a big crowd, hold an adult's hand and agree a meeting point, because it is easy to get lost. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/11/) — A quick way to work out a tip: take a tenth of the bill and double it; for a $40 bill a tenth is $4, doubled is $8, and a little less than that is fine too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/12/) — Good manners in shared places make them pleasant for everyone. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/13/) — A plan made before you need it stops panic. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/14/) — A family at a big parade in New York had not agreed where to meet; their son got separated, and it took police three frightening hours to reunite them. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/15/) — A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a waiter carrying hot soup; the soup spilled on his arm and burned him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/16/) — Restaurant kitchens and dining rooms are full of hot food, plates and sharp things, so running there causes burns and cuts. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/17/) — A family that agrees a meeting point is reunited much faster than one that does not. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/18/) — If you are lost in a crowd and there is no meeting point, stay where you are and ask a police officer or a steward (a helper in a bright vest at the event). - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/20/) — Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/21/) — To «pop the question» means to ask someone to marry you. - ← previous: [Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes/) - next →: [Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)