--- title: Lily, the calm «princess» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Lily, the calm «princess»», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: She rolls her eyes and says: «Yes, and princesses can be scientists.» That spring her volcano project won the science fair, and the boys who ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/) [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/) / Lily, the calm «princess» # Lily, the calm «princess» Lesson 386 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 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/386-lily-the-calm-princess/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/1/) — She rolls her eyes and says: «Yes, and princesses can be scientists.» That spring her volcano project won the science fair, and the boys who had laughed queued up to see it fizz. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/2/) — One wet lunchtime a fight broke out at the back of the classroom. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/3/) — Chairs scraped, everybody jumped up to watch and some even shouted «go on!». - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/4/) — Lily's heart was racing too, but she kept her face calm, slipped out of the door and fetched Mr Hughes from the staffroom. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/5/) — She did not cheer, and she did not just stand and watch. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/7/) — Lily's calm is not the same as being weak or stuck up. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/8/) — The boys thought she was proud because she was quiet, until she helped one of them with fractions and they found out she was simply shy. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/10/) — Another time, when Lily's friends cheered at a playground fight, Lily stayed quiet and would not join in. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/11/) — One friend stopped cheering with her, and the next time two more did. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/12/) — Lily also asked Maddie to teach her to climb trees: she got stuck on the first branch, laughed at herself, and Maddie's mum helped her down. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/13/) — And when a scared new girl arrived, the teacher chose Lily to show her around, because Lily's calm made people feel safe. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/14/) — The two became friends. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/15/) — Her gran told her that real princesses and queens in history often had to be very brave, and Lily did her history project on one. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/16/) — Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, until Lily asked what «ladylike» means. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/18/) — «Then I can be that and run,» said Lily. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/19/) — Being tidy, quiet or calm says nothing about whether a person is weak. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/20/) — Quiet people are often shy, not proud or «stuck up». - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/21/) — Staying calm in a crisis lets you do something useful, such as fetching a teacher. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/22/) — When a fight starts, the most helpful thing a bystander can do is get an adult, not watch or cheer. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/23/) — Cheering at a fight makes it bigger and can get someone badly hurt. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/24/) — When one person refuses to cheer, others often find the courage to stop too. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/26/) — Feeling your heart race is normal; calm people feel fear too, they just choose what to do next. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/27/) — Trying something new that you are not good at, like climbing a tree, takes courage. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/28/) — Asking what a word really means can change how people use it. - ← previous: [Respect: how it is earned](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/) - next →: [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)