--- title: Standing by a friend — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Standing by a friend», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) [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/) / Standing by a friend # Standing by a friend Lesson 370 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/0/) — Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/1/) — Sam doesn't fight anyone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/2/) — He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/3/) — Later Freddie is blamed for starting a fight he didn't start, and Sam goes with him to the head teacher to say what he saw. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/5/) — One afternoon the Station Road boys corner Sam by the garages. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/6/) — Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/7/) — The boys look at her, look at each other, and drift off muttering. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/9/) — Sam's knees were knocking, but it was the most powerful silence he'd ever heard. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/10/) — Standing by someone takes many shapes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/11/) — When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/12/) — Lily stays with Chloe in the nurse's room after Chloe's plaits are pulled so hard she cries. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/14/) — And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/15/) — Jake's dad goes into hospital and Jake is angry at everything. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/16/) — Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/17/) — Jake mumbles «ta». - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/18/) — At the school disco a group laughs at Sam's dancing — which, to be fair, looks like a startled octopus. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/19/) — Lily walks over and dances right next to him, just as badly on purpose. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/20/) — Soon half the class is dancing like octopuses, and the laughing is a different kind. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/21/) — Standing by a friend means being with them and on their side, not fighting for them. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/22/) — Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes over, is a real help. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/23/) — Bullies often stop when the person they pick on is not alone. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/24/) — Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/25/) — A good friend can say no to a bad idea, like revenge, and still be a friend. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/26/) — Revenge usually starts a new round of trouble instead of ending it. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/27/) — People who are going through something hard at home, like a parent in hospital, often act angry; small kindnesses help. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/28/) — Telling your own friends to stop being unkind can be one of the hardest kinds of courage. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/29/) — Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/30/) — Including someone who has been left alone at lunch or play is a simple, kind act. - ← previous: [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) - next →: [Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)