--- title: Respect: how it is earned — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Respect: how it is earned», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jake had always thought respect came from your fists. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/) [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/) / Respect: how it is earned # Respect: how it is earned Lesson 385 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 29 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/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/0/) — Jake had always thought respect came from your fists. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/1/) — Then he went in goal for the Year 3s' lunchtime match, dived full length in the mud and saved a penalty. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/2/) — The little ones mobbed him: «Jake! - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/3/) — Best goalie ever!» They had always kept away from him in the playground. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/4/) — Now they waved at him every morning. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/5/) — Jake realised they had been scared of him before — and that scared is not the same as respect. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/6/) — Respect turned up in other places too. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/7/) — Maddie won the school cross-country by half a field, and the whole school cheered her, not because she was tough but because she had trained every morning for weeks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/8/) — Sam, who hates talking in front of people, spoke up in assembly about the litter in the park, and his voice shook the whole time — afterwards the class looked at him differently. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/10/) — Even Jake admitted: «I respect Sam. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/11/) — He never pretends to be hard.» - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/12/) — Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/13/) — But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and laughed at him when he left. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/15/) — She respects Maddie a bit for the cross-country, but she still stays away from her, because she remembers the fights. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/16/) — Respect, once lost, comes back slowly. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/17/) — Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/18/) — Strength you control earns respect. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/19/) — Strength you throw around just earns fear.» Respect comes from skill, effort, honesty, kindness and courage — not from making people afraid. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/20/) — Respect means people value and trust you; fear means people avoid you or obey you only while you are there. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/21/) — Respect is earned by effort, skill, honesty, kindness and courage. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/22/) — Fighting may make people afraid of you, but fear is not the same as respect. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/23/) — Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of courage. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/24/) — People who never say mean things about others are trusted more, because they will not talk about you behind your back either. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/25/) — Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns more respect than pretending. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/26/) — An excuse for hurting someone usually makes people think worse of you, not better. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/27/) — Respect that has been lost can come back, but only slowly, through steady good behaviour. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/28/) — In boxing clubs, coaches teach that skills are only for the ring, with rules and a referee, never for the street. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/29/) — Someone can respect you a little and still keep their distance; trust takes longer than respect. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/30/) — Hard work you can see, like training for a race, earns respect from many people at once. - ← previous: [When the police come](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/) - next →: [Lily, the calm «princess»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)