--- title: Walking away — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Walking away», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) [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/) / Walking away # Walking away Lesson 371 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/371-walking-away/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/0/) — On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/1/) — Sam's chest burned, because walking away looks like losing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/3/) — The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/4/) — A fight needs two people; Sam simply did not turn up to it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/5/) — Jake, who fights about everything, heard a boy call his football team rubbish. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/6/) — His fists itched and his face went hot. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/7/) — For the first time in his life he counted to ten, turned round and left. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/8/) — The boy was left shouting at nobody and looked silly, Jake's mates were amazed, and Jake did not get a detention for once that term. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/9/) — Walking away is not only leaving trouble, it is walking towards safety. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/10/) — When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/11/) — The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddie's mum. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/12/) — Lights, shops and grown-ups are the right direction. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/13/) — Others tried it too. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/14/) — When an older girl pushed Maddie at the park, Maddie remembered her sore nose from last time and walked home, annoyed with herself and proud at the same time; her mum said it was the most grown-up thing she had done all year. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/16/) — In PE Jake was so angry that he stormed off to the changing rooms instead of throwing the ball at Freddie; the PE teacher followed him, said leaving was better than hurting someone, and they talked. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/17/) — When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other side of the playground, and it stopped properly when the teacher on duty noticed and had a word with him. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/18/) — Walking away does not need a big speech. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/20/) — His mate laughed and came round to help with the Lego. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/22/) — A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happen. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/23/) — Walking away is hardest for people who are used to fighting, which is why it counts so much. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/25/) — The best direction to walk away is towards other people, lights, shops and adults. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/26/) — Shopkeepers, teachers on duty and other grown-ups can help children who feel followed or threatened. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/27/) — Counting slowly and leaving the room are real ways to let anger cool down. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/28/) — Not reacting can make a teasing game boring; telling an adult stops it properly. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/29/) — A joke or an everyday reason, like tea time, can be an easy way out of an argument. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/30/) — Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/31/) — Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too. - ← previous: [Standing by a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) - next →: [Jake, always in bruises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)