--- title: Jake, always in bruises — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Jake, always in bruises», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jake turned up on Monday with a purple bruise on his cheek. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/) [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/) / Jake, always in bruises # Jake, always in bruises Lesson 372 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/372-jake-always-in-bruises/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/0/) — Jake turned up on Monday with a purple bruise on his cheek. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/1/) — By Wednesday Jake had told different people four different stories about it: a fight, a goalpost, a bike and, to the Year 2s, a bear. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/2/) — Mrs Okafor quietly asked which one was true. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/3/) — It was the goalpost. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/4/) — Jake had been proud of the bruise, but secretly it was sore and he was fed up with it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/5/) — Jake's mum keeps a box just for him: plasters, arnica cream (a cream for bruises) and a bag of frozen peas. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/6/) — Jake thought it was funny, until one evening his mum cried while holding the peas on his eye. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/7/) — That hurt him more than the eye did. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/8/) — Every bruise is also somebody else's worry. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/9/) — The Year 3s hid behind the climbing frame whenever Jake walked past, and everyone picked him first at football because they were scared not to. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/10/) — It felt powerful, then oddly lonely, because nobody passed him the ball either. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/11/) — Being feared is not the same as being liked. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/12/) — When Jake helped a little one get a ball off the roof, they stopped hiding and asked him to play in goal. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/13/) — Jake had other battles. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/14/) — When nobody was looking, he asked Sam for help with spelling, embarrassed that a tough boy needed it; after some sessions with Sam at the library, his spellings went from 3 out of 10 to 8. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/17/) — After losing a match, Jake punched a wall and broke his wrist: six weeks in a cast, no football, no writing, and the wall was completely fine. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/18/) — Worse, his little brother Ben started copying him and got into his first fight in Year 2. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/19/) — When Jake told him fighting was stupid, Ben said «but you do it», and Jake had no answer. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/20/) — A bruise is bleeding under the skin; it changes colour from purple to green to yellow as the body clears it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/21/) — A bruise is an injury, not a medal, even when people talk about it like one. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/22/) — The people who look after an injured child feel worried and tired every time it happens. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/23/) — People who are feared are often lonely, because fear keeps others away. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/24/) — Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being wanted. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/25/) — Punching a wall can break bones in the hand or wrist; the wall is not hurt at all. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/27/) — Anger needs a safe outlet, like running hard, a pillow or talking. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/28/) — Asking for help with schoolwork is a strong thing to do, not a soft one. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/29/) — A bad reputation can arrive before you, but it can be changed day by day. - ← previous: [Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)