--- title: What fights cost at school — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What fights cost at school», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jake was suspended for three days after a fight in the dinner hall. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/) [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/) / What fights cost at school # What fights cost at school Lesson 375 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 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/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/0/) — Jake was suspended for three days after a fight in the dinner hall. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/1/) — At first he thought it was a holiday. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/2/) — It wasn't: he spent the days doing schoolwork at his gran's, missed the planning for the class trip, and came back behind in maths. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/3/) — Then his new secondary school asked about the suspension, because it was on his record. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/4/) — Luckily his primary head also wrote that Jake had improved a lot. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/5/) — Records remember, so it is worth giving them good news. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/7/) — When Jake started a fight in the line, the whole class lost golden time, and nobody wanted to sit with him at lunch. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/8/) — Maddie, the best striker, got a detention for fighting and missed the girls' football tournament; she watched from the sidelines as the team lost 2–1. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/9/) — After the nose punch, Maddie and Connor had to sit with Mr Pryce and say what THEY did, not what the other did. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/11/) — In the end Maddie said sorry for shoving, Connor said sorry for punching, and he admitted «hit like a boy» was a stupid thing to say. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/14/) — Jake was banned from after-school football for a term and not allowed in the school play, though secretly he wanted to be the pirate. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/15/) — Sam's mum asked the school to keep Sam away from Jake, and that hurt; Jake quietly tried to show Sam he wasn't dangerous. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/16/) — But doors that close can open again: Jake's uncle took him to a boxing club where the rule was no fighting outside the ring, ever, and the next year, after a good term, Jake played the pirate and his whole family came. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/17/) — A suspension (also called an exclusion) means a pupil must stay away from school for a set number of days. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/18/) — A suspension is not a holiday; the pupil still has to do schoolwork and falls behind. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/19/) — Serious incidents like suspensions are written on a pupil's school record, which a new school can see. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/20/) — A school record can also show that a pupil has improved. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/21/) — Punishments for fighting often take away the things a child loves most, like a tournament or a play. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/22/) — When a fight disrupts a class, the whole group may lose time or treats. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/23/) — A restorative meeting is a talk where people who fell out say what happened and how to put it right. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/24/) — Owning your own part, instead of blaming the other person, is the heart of making peace. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/25/) — After a fight, other families may want to keep their children away; trust has to be earned back. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/26/) — Bans and lost chances can end when a pupil's behaviour changes. - ← previous: [What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/) - next →: [What fights cost at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)