--- title: Leaving someone out — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Leaving someone out», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/) [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/) / Leaving someone out # Leaving someone out Lesson 347 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 27 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/347-leaving-someone-out/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/0/) — Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/1/) — The boy stopped coming out at playtime, and his mum told the teacher. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/2/) — Kai said sorry, and the next time someone teased the boy he stood up for him. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/3/) — Money and clothes don't decide who someone is. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/4/) — Kai felt good about changing — and a few weeks later slipped. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/5/) — His friend got a wrong answer in maths and Kai laughed out loud. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/6/) — She stopped putting her hand up. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/7/) — When the teacher asked why she was so quiet, Kai's face went hot. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/8/) — He said sorry and cheered her right answers from then on. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/9/) — Everyone slips; what matters is putting it right each time. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/10/) — Some words are worse than they sound. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/11/) — A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her skin colour — something she had heard somewhere and copied. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/12/) — Her classmate cried; the head teacher and her parents talked with her about why it was wrong. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/13/) — She said sorry, and in the next game her classmate was the princess and she was the guard. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/14/) — Anyone can be anything in a game. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/15/) — Telling everyone a friend's secret (that he still sleeps with a teddy) got the whole class teasing him, and he stopped trusting Kai. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/16/) — Kai said sorry and told the class that lots of people have teddies — even him. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/17/) — Teasing someone about old clothes or having less money is unfair; it says nothing about who they are. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/18/) — Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/19/) — Saying a girl can't play football because she is a girl is wrong; girls play football at every level. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/20/) — Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/21/) — Words about someone's body can hurt deeply and for a long time. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/24/) — Telling a friend's private secret to others breaks trust. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/25/) — Sharing with the person next to you is a small kindness that makes everyone's work better. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/26/) — A girl who wouldn't share her crayons felt mean when her neighbour's grey picture went up on the wall. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/27/) — After you stop teasing, you may slip again; the fix is to say sorry and put it right each time. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/28/) — Standing up for someone who is teased is a strong way to make amends. - ← previous: [Teasing and laughing at others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/) - next →: [Staying up, screens and coming home late](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)