--- title: Teasing and laughing at others — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Teasing and laughing at others», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Teasing often starts as showing off. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/) [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/) / Teasing and laughing at others # Teasing and laughing at others Lesson 346 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/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/0/) — Teasing often starts as showing off. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/1/) — Maya in Denver called a girl «four-eyes» because her friends laughed. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/2/) — The girl cried in the toilets, the teacher found out, and Maya missed golden time (the free play time at the end of the week) and wrote a letter. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/3/) — Then she said sorry to the girl's face and told her friends it wasn't funny — that was the hard part, and the part that mattered. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/4/) — Some teasing is never punished. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/5/) — Maya's friend Josh copied the way a boy talks with his stammer, and everyone laughed. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/7/) — But Josh saw the boy's face and felt horrible, and the boy didn't come to his party. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/8/) — Josh told it at confession, felt lighter afterwards, and then did what the priest asked: said sorry to the boy and stopped others doing it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/9/) — Leaving someone out hurts as much as a push. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/11/) — When the teacher made them include him, he turned out to be the best player they had. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/12/) — Laughing at a fall, a stammer, glasses, someone's food or a wrong answer makes people stop trying, stop bringing their lunch, stop putting their hand up. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/13/) — A good joke is one everyone laughs at, including the person it is about. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/14/) — Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a long time. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/15/) — A stammer is a difference in speech that people cannot just switch off, and mocking it makes it harder. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/16/) — Leaving someone out on purpose hurts as much as a push. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/17/) — Food from another family or culture is not weird, only new to you. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/18/) — Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting just a few friends. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/19/) — Whispering unkind things behind someone's back is as bad as saying them out loud. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/21/) — Saying sorry to the person's face and stopping others from teasing are both part of putting it right. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/22/) — Teasing is often done to show off or to fit in with a group. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/23/) — Confession can ease guilt about teasing, but the sorry to the person teased is still needed. - ← previous: [When someone else takes your punishment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/) - next →: [Leaving someone out](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)