--- title: What fights cost at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What fights cost at home», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/) [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 home # What fights cost at home Lesson 376 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 25 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/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/0/) — When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/1/) — Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/2/) — At home Jake's little brother Alfie took one look at the new bruise on Jake's cheek and burst into tears, the way he did every time. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/3/) — Jake had thought the fight was over when the bell rang. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/4/) — It wasn't — it had come home with him. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/5/) — Maddie's street scrap ended with a stone through Mr Patel's window, and her mum paid for the glass out of the holiday money. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/6/) — Then came the wrist: Maddie fell in a fight by the garages, her dad took her to A&E, and while they waited four hours for the X-ray he missed the job interview he had ironed his shirt for. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/7/) — He told her it didn't matter. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/8/) — It did, a bit, and they both knew it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/9/) — Fights cost more than bruises. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/10/) — They cost money, time off work, trust and a family's good name. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/12/) — Neither mum had thrown a single punch. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/13/) — Jake's mum stopped trusting him to walk home alone for a while. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/14/) — And after Kieran's scrap by the chippy, a police officer came round to his house; his mum went white. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/15/) — Even quiet Sam's family paid: his mum took a day off work to go to a meeting about the bus-shelter boys who picked on him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/16/) — The person who fights is rarely the only one who pays. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/17/) — When a child is suspended, a parent often has to leave work to collect them and look after them at home. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/19/) — Damage done in a fight, like a broken window, usually has to be paid for by the family. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/20/) — After a serious street fight the police may visit the family at home. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/21/) — Parents who see a child fighting often stop trusting them to go out alone for a while. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/22/) — Younger brothers and sisters are often frightened and upset when they see an older child hurt. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/23/) — Other parents may judge a whole family by one child's fights, even though it is unfair. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/24/) — A broken bone means hours in hospital, weeks in a cast and no sport for a long time. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/25/) — Even the child who is picked on costs the family time, because parents must go to meetings to stop it. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/26/) — Trust lost through fighting comes back slowly, by keeping out of trouble day after day. - ← previous: [What fights cost at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)