--- title: Making peace between the streets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Making peace between the streets», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/) [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/) / Making peace between the streets # Making peace between the streets Lesson 394 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/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/0/) — For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, and mostly over who had started it, which nobody could actually remember. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/1/) — Then Mr Pryce had an idea: a football match, but with mixed teams, half from each street on each side. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/2/) — For the first ten minutes nobody passed to anyone from the other street. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/3/) — Then Kieran missed an open goal so badly that both streets laughed together, and after that the ball started going everywhere. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/4/) — Peace is built from lots of small things, not one big speech. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/5/) — Maddie and her swimming friend from Station Road organised a picnic for both streets, with crisps, a bubble machine and a very sticky cake. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/6/) — Sam, who hates shouting, suggested a joint art project: a long mural on the underpass wall, painted by both streets, with a fox from each end meeting in the middle. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/7/) — Lily invited girls from both streets to her birthday, and her mum had to buy twice as many party bags. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/8/) — The hardest parts were the honest ones. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/9/) — Kieran and Jake shook hands and agreed: no more street fights, and if someone starts one, they walk away and tell. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/10/) — Maddie and Kieran went to a Station Road boy they had hurt in a scrap the summer before and said a real sorry, without «but you started it». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/11/) — He shrugged, said «yeah, all right», and later he passed Maddie the ball. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/13/) — Mr Pryce set up a «peace bench» in the playground: if two kids fell out, they sat on it together until they had talked it through. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/14/) — And because the rec was still too small for everyone, the two streets agreed to share it — Station Road on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Maddie's street on Mondays and Wednesdays, and everyone together on Saturdays for football with the police officer. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/15/) — The parents of both streets even ran a summer fete together, and argued only about the tombola. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/16/) — Long fights between groups often go on long after anyone remembers how they started. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/18/) — Laughing together and shared fun help groups stop seeing each other as enemies. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/19/) — Peace is usually built from many small steps, like games, parties and shared projects. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/20/) — A real apology names what you did and does not add «but you started it». - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/21/) — Apologising first can feel hard, but it often makes the other person ready to make peace. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/23/) — Sharing a place fairly, for example by taking turns on different days, can end fights about who owns it. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/25/) — When adults from both sides work together, children see that the two sides can get on. - ← previous: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/) - next →: [What everyone learned about fights](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)