--- title: Sweets, change and a friend's toy — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sweets, change and a friend's toy», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/) [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/) / Sweets, change and a friend's toy # Sweets, change and a friend's toy Lesson 338 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/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/0/) — Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/1/) — Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was watching. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/2/) — He felt sick eating them, and Dad found the wrappers in his pocket. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/3/) — They went back together; Harry said sorry to the shopkeeper and paid with his own pocket money. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/4/) — Some takings are never found out. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/5/) — Harry also took a pound from Mum's purse for a lolly. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/6/) — Nobody noticed, but every time she opened her purse his stomach turned over. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/7/) — On Saturday he told it at confession; the priest gave him absolution (forgiveness in God's name) and a small penance (a short prayer or task to show he is sorry), and he felt the weight lift. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/8/) — The priest also said: «Now tell your mum, and pay it back.» He did, with jobs around the house. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/9/) — Mum was sad more than angry, and then she hugged him. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/10/) — A pound is small, but trust is big. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/11/) — A thing you have to hide is a thing you cannot enjoy. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/12/) — Harry's friend's toy car stayed in a drawer because he was scared someone would see it, while his friend searched and cried. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/13/) — Giving it back with a sorry was the only way to feel right again. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/14/) — Taking from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it is only sweets. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/15/) — Change from shopping you were sent to do belongs to the person who gave you the money. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/16/) — Borrowing without asking is taking, and breaking the thing makes it worse. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/17/) — Lost property still belongs to somebody, who may come looking for it. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/18/) — Food saved for someone is already theirs. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/19/) — When nobody owns up, often the whole group pays, so owning up quickly is fairer to everyone. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/20/) — Putting a theft right means giving back or paying back, and saying sorry to the person. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/21/) — Confession can lift guilt, but it does not replace giving back what you took. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/22/) — Things you had to steal are hard to enjoy, because you must hide them. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/23/) — A parent is often more hurt by being stolen from than by the money itself. - ← previous: [Excuses and the lies that grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/) - next →: [Borrowing without asking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)