--- title: When someone else takes your punishment — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «When someone else takes your punishment», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you take their good name and their free time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/) [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/) / When someone else takes your punishment # When someone else takes your punishment Lesson 345 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/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/0/) — Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you take their good name and their free time. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/1/) — Finn in Cork drew with chalk on the school wall, and when the teacher asked, his friend Rory got the blame and said nothing. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/2/) — Rory missed football practice as a punishment, and kept looking at Finn. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/3/) — Finn felt sick inside all week. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/4/) — On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and scrubbed the wall clean himself. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/6/) — Finn's late mornings went another way. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/8/) — He began to think the excuse always worked. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/9/) — The third time his teacher had watched him stroll past the window. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/10/) — He was marked late and the excuse never worked again — small excuses add up to a big habit. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/11/) — Worst of all was the secret. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/12/) — Finn told a friend's secret and then blamed his best friend for it, scared of losing the others. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/13/) — The whole group fell out, and his best friend wouldn't speak to him. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/14/) — Only owning up — «It was me, I'm sorry» — saved the friendship. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/15/) — Letting someone else take your punishment takes away their good name and their time. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/16/) — Silence can be a lie when it lets someone innocent be punished. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/17/) — When two children fight, the truth about who started it usually comes out, often from someone who saw. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/18/) — Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get them in trouble at work. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/19/) — An excuse that works twice is still a lie, and the third time it is often seen through. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/20/) — Small excuses repeated become a habit that people stop believing. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/21/) — Blaming a friend for something you did can break up a whole group of friends. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/22/) — Owning your mistake can save a friendship. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/23/) — Your mess is your job, even if someone else could tidy it. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/24/) — Making it right with the person who was punished instead of you is the most important part of putting it right. - ← previous: [Putting the blame on someone else](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/) - next →: [Teasing and laughing at others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)