--- title: Taking too much — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Taking too much», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/) [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/) / Taking too much # Taking too much Lesson 352 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/0/) — At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/3/) — He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of sweets to share and handed them round first. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/4/) — Ella grabbed the biggest slice of birthday cake before anyone else could. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/5/) — Her little sister got the thin end and cried, and Mum made them swap. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/6/) — Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she said sorry, and the next time there was cake she let her sister choose first. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/7/) — Greed is wanting more than your share; envy is being sore that someone else has something good. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/8/) — Both make you do things that leave others with less, and both spoil the very treat you grabbed. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/9/) — Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the person left with the broken ones still notices. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/10/) — Being caught or not caught does not change who went without. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/11/) — When one person takes too much of something shared, others are left with little or nothing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/12/) — Envy can make you say mean things you do not really believe, like calling something ugly because you want it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/13/) — Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/14/) — Accusing someone of cheating because you are jealous of their win is unfair and can make them cry. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/15/) — Pushing in a queue can make someone fall and get hurt; the fair fix is to say sorry and go to the back. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/16/) — Shared class things, like a pencil box, belong to everyone in the class. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/17/) — Hiding treats from a brother or sister usually spoils the treat, because guilt comes with it. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/18/) — Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home early, not wanting to play again; sharing it and showing how to use it gently is wiser. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/19/) — Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/20/) — A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for example by sharing or giving back. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/21/) — Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab. - ← previous: [Homework, practice and the team counting on you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/) - next →: [When you want what others have](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)