--- title: Our street against theirs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Our street against theirs», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) [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/) / Our street against theirs # Our street against theirs Lesson 382 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 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/382-our-street-against-theirs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/0/) — The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/3/) — Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the whole evening feeling sick. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/4/) — But the lines kept getting blurry. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/5/) — Jake lives on Station Road but goes to school with the Mill Lane kids, so both sides called him a traitor. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/6/) — Maddie met a Station Road girl at swimming, and they got on so well they shared crisps every Saturday. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/7/) — Kieran's cousin lives on Station Road, and at Christmas they had to sit next to each other with paper hats on, pulling a cracker. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/8/) — Lily simply refused to join the «our street» gang: her best friend lives on Station Road. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/9/) — Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the streets even fight?» Maddie opened her mouth and shut it again. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/10/) — «Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really no reason at all. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/11/) — A street is just where your family happens to live. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/12/) — The kids on the other street go to the same shops, swim in the same pool, and have the same mums telling them to be home by six. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/13/) — Fighting over a road name gets people hurt, gets property damaged, and turns friends and cousins into «enemies» for nothing. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/14/) — Feuds between streets or groups often go on long after anyone remembers why they started. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/15/) — Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti, a kind of vandalism; the council pays to clean it, and that money comes from everyone. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/16/) — Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even if it is called a «pinch» or a joke. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/17/) — A «lookout» for a fight is part of the fight; adults and police treat lookouts as joining in. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/18/) — People are not good or bad because of the street they live on. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/19/) — Friends, cousins and classmates often live on «the other side», so street wars hurt people's own families and friendships. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/20/) — Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choice in the group. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/21/) — Asking «why are we doing this?» can stop a feud more quickly than any fight. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/22/) — Saying no to being a lookout and telling a trusted adult is the safe choice. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/23/) — Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given back, and saying sorry helps calm things down. - ← previous: [Girls who fight and double standards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)