--- title: Speaking up is bravery too — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Speaking up is bravery too», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bike shed got broken?» Three hundred children stare at their shoes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) [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/) / Speaking up is bravery too # Speaking up is bravery too Lesson 368 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/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/0/) — In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bike shed got broken?» Three hundred children stare at their shoes. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/1/) — One hand goes up — Sam's. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/2/) — His face goes the colour of a tomato and his voice wobbles, but he says what he saw. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/3/) — Afterwards nobody calls him Scaredy-Sam for a whole day. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/4/) — Speaking up gets easier with practice. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/5/) — When Jake grabs little Ollie's football, Sam says, in front of everyone: «Leave Ollie alone, he's only in Year 3.» His knees shake. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/6/) — Jake is so surprised he actually gives the ball back. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/7/) — Lily tells the dinner lady the big boys keep taking the Year 3s' crisps, and Sam drops a note in the class worry box: «Someone is getting hit in the boys' toilets.» - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/8/) — Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys who fight get a detention, but girls who fight just get a talking-to?» The class goes silent. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/9/) — Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/10/) — Fighting is fighting. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/12/) — Maddie has her own moment. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/13/) — She stands up and says the Station Road boy did not start the fight — her own friend Kieran did. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/14/) — Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said something nasty about his mum, who is in hospital. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/15/) — That is not an excuse, but it helps the grown-ups help him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/16/) — Lily tells her friends she does not find the ponytail tugging cute — she finds it annoying. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/17/) — And Sam, braver now, tells Maddie she should not have pulled Chloe's plaits. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/18/) — Maddie scowls — and the next day she says sorry to Chloe. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/19/) — Speaking up for what is true or fair is a kind of courage, just like standing up to danger. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/20/) — Feeling nervous, blushing or shaking when you speak up is normal and does not make it any less brave. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/21/) — Telling a grown-up when younger children are being picked on helps protect them. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/22/) — Many schools have a worry box or a trusted adult so children can report problems safely, even without their name. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/23/) — Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is your own friend. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/24/) — Rules should be the same for boys and girls: fighting is fighting. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/25/) — Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but it helps adults understand and help. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/27/) — Telling a friend kindly that they did something wrong is hard, but real friends do it. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/28/) — The more often someone speaks up, the easier it usually gets. - ← previous: [Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)