--- title: Showing off — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Showing off», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jake climbed onto the shed roof at the back of the playing field. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/) [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/) / Showing off # Showing off Lesson 390 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 32 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/390-showing-off/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/0/) — Jake climbed onto the shed roof at the back of the playing field. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/2/) — He landed badly, twisted his ankle and spent the next two weeks on crutches. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/3/) — The worst part? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/4/) — The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/5/) — Jake felt brave for one second and silly for fourteen days. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/6/) — Showing off was everywhere that term. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/7/) — Maddie lifted the heaviest kit bag in PE to prove how strong she was, pulled a muscle in her back and missed the football match she'd waited a month for. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/8/) — Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/9/) — She was fine after a cold compress, but Tom was sent to the head and his mates went very quiet. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/10/) — Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/11/) — Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard every word. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/12/) — Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/13/) — To Jake it was a joke. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/14/) — To Sam it wasn't: he was frightened and cried, and Jake felt awful and said sorry properly. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/15/) — Kieran rolled up his sleeve to show his scar from a street fight like it was a medal. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/16/) — Lily said: «That looks like it hurt a lot.» Kieran went quiet and admitted it had, and that he had been scared. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/17/) — A scar is not a trophy. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/19/) — The boy he was racing came back and helped him up. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/20/) — Mrs Okafor asked the class why people show off. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/21/) — After the giggles, they worked it out: people show off when they want to be liked or noticed. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/22/) — Not every show-off is bad. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/23/) — Maddie and Jake once had a monkey-bars contest, both fell off into the bark chips, both laughed and decided being friends was better than winning. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/24/) — So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/25/) — People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/26/) — Showing off with danger, like jumping off roofs, often ends in injuries. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/27/) — Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the back. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/28/) — Flicking rulers or throwing things near faces can injure eyes. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/29/) — Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you into trouble. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/31/) — Scars from fights are reminders of pain and fear, not prizes. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/32/) — Friendly contests are fun when nobody gets hurt and nobody needs to win. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/33/) — Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/34/) — Liking someone as they are makes it less likely they will feel they must show off. - ← previous: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/) - next →: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)