--- title: Promises to friends and to yourself — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Promises to friends and to yourself», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Hannah in Auckland promised to walk home with her friend Lily every day after school. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/) [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/) / Promises to friends and to yourself # Promises to friends and to yourself Lesson 359 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/0/) — Hannah in Auckland promised to walk home with her friend Lily every day after school. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/1/) — One day she wanted to get home fast for a TV show and left without her. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/2/) — Lily walked alone, got scared at the big crossing and arrived home in tears; her mum rang Hannah's mum. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/3/) — Hannah said sorry the next morning and waited for Lily at the gate every day after that — even when it was raining and the show was on. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/4/) — Josh promised himself he would save his pocket money for a new football. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/5/) — In the first week he spent it all on sweets and a toy he never played with. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/6/) — Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends played with their new balls, he felt silly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/7/) — He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar where he could see it grow. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/8/) — Promises to friends let them feel safe and plan. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/9/) — Promises to yourself are how you reach the things you want. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/10/) — Both are broken in the same quiet way — by choosing what is easier right now. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/11/) — Tom promised his little sister his old bike, then sold it for money. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/12/) — Mum made him give his sister the money, and Tom said sorry and bought her a helmet as well. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/14/) — That's what makes it hard.» - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/15/) — People count on promises to plan and to feel safe. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/16/) — A promise to yourself, such as saving or practising, has no one to check it, so it needs extra will. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/17/) — Saving works better when you can see it grow and know what it is for. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/18/) — A promise to be careful with something borrowed includes paying for or fixing it if it breaks. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/19/) — Something you have promised to someone is no longer yours to sell or give away. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/20/) — Small lies again after a promise of honesty are common, but each truth told makes the next one easier. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/21/) — Being kind to someone new is a promise you keep every day, not once. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/22/) — Teachers can usually tell from a lesson whether a pupil has practised. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/23/) — When there is no outside punishment, the consequence is often missing out on what you wanted. - ← previous: [Promises to family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/) - next →: [Wasting food and water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)