--- title: Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Outdoors, small things are best dealt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/) [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/) / Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, c… # Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety Lesson 325 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/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/0/) — Outdoors, small things are best dealt with early, and some places are never worth the risk: keep off icy playground equipment, tell a grown-up about a blister early, and stay well back from cliff edges and quarries. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/1/) — On a hike, learn the trail markers and check them at every junction, so you stay on the right path and can find your way back. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/2/) — A burn from a campfire should go under cool running water for 20 minutes, and a grown-up should be told; ice or butter make a burn worse. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/3/) — Water needs the most care of all: cross rivers only on a bridge or with a grown-up who says it is safe, never jump from bridges, walk at the pool, never push or hold anyone under, and never go in or near a pool without a grown-up watching. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/4/) — Example: a family in Colorado reaches a viewpoint with a fence. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/5/) — A boy wants to climb over for a better photo, but his mum explains that cliff edges can crumble without warning, so he takes the photo from behind the fence. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/6/) — Keep off playground equipment covered in ice; ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/7/) — Tell a grown-up about a blister early and cover it with a plaster or blister pad, before it becomes an open sore. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/8/) — Stay well back from cliff edges and behind any fence, because edges can crumble and a fall can kill. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/9/) — Check trail markers or the map at every junction to stay on the right path; if you lose the trail, stop, check the map and go back to the last marker you saw. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/10/) — Stay away from quarries and old mines; rocks can fall and quarry water is very deep and cold. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/11/) — Cool a burn under cool running water for 20 minutes and tell a grown-up; never use ice or butter. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/12/) — Wet stepping stones and logs are slippery; cross a river only on a bridge or with a grown-up who says it is safe. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/13/) — Cross a bridge on the path, not on the railings, and never jump off it, because the water may hide rocks or be shallow. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/14/) — Walk, never run, around a pool, because wet tiles are slippery and falls cause head injuries. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/15/) — Never push, dunk or hold anyone under water, even in fun; people can hit the side, swallow water and drown. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/16/) — Never go in or near a pool without a grown-up watching; most child drownings happen in home pools when no one is watching. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/17/) — A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with broken bones. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/18/) — Teenagers in England swam in a flooded quarry on a hot day; the water was icy cold underneath, and one of them drowned. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/19/) — Cliff edges can crumble without warning, and many people fall from them every year. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/20/) — Quarry water is very cold and deep and has hidden machinery and ledges, and people drown in it every summer. - ← previous: [Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/) - next →: [Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)