--- title: Wasting food and water — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Wasting food and water», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every day for three weeks, Noah in Austin threw his sandwich in the school bin because he did not like the crusts. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) [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/) / Wasting food and water # Wasting food and water Lesson 360 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/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/0/) — Every day for three weeks, Noah in Austin threw his sandwich in the school bin because he did not like the crusts. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/1/) — Nobody noticed, and he thought he had found a clever trick. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/3/) — Then a lunch helper saw the whole sandwich in the bin and told his teacher, who told Mum. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/4/) — At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every morning». - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/5/) — Noah said sorry and asked for no crusts, and now he eats it all. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/6/) — Freddie left the tap running the whole time he brushed his teeth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/7/) — Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several litres a minute — a bucket's worth in a couple of brushings. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/8/) — Freddie turns it off now while he brushes. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/9/) — Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/10/) — But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/11/) — Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody paid for every sandwich in the bin. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/12/) — A running tap can pour away several litres of water every minute. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/13/) — Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water every day. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/14/) — Food thrown away wastes the money, water, land and work that went into growing and making it. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/15/) — Lights left on in empty rooms waste electricity and make the bill higher. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/16/) — Paper is made from trees, so using both sides of a sheet saves trees. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/17/) — At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/18/) — Spending all your money at once leaves nothing for things that come later. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/19/) — Losing or breaking things through carelessness means someone has to pay to replace them. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/20/) — Being hungry makes it harder to think and learn in the afternoon. - ← previous: [Promises to friends and to yourself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/) - next →: [Spoiling and losing things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)