--- title: Climbing trees and playgrounds — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Climbing trees and playgrounds», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Climbing is great fun and makes you strong, and the most important rule is «three points of contact»: always keep three of your four hands --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/) [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/) / Climbing trees and playgrounds # Climbing trees and playgrounds Lesson 4 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/4-climbing/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/0/) — Climbing is great fun and makes you strong, and the most important rule is «three points of contact»: always keep three of your four hands and feet on the tree or frame, and move only one at a time. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/1/) — Then if one hand or foot slips, the other three still hold you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/2/) — In a tree, test each branch before you trust it, step close to the trunk where branches are thickest, and stay off dead, dry or cracked branches, which can snap. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/3/) — Climb only as high as you can safely climb back down, because coming down is usually harder than going up. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/4/) — On a playground, take off your bike helmet and anything with cords, because they can catch on the equipment; a girl in Melbourne tucks her hoodie strings away before she goes up the climbing net. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/5/) — A boy in New Zealand climbed onto a thin branch high in a tree to reach a ball; the branch snapped and he fell, breaking his leg in two places. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/6/) — A girl in Alberta climbed the outside of the playground slide while other children were sliding down; one bumped into her, she fell onto the ground and hit her head. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/7/) — Three points of contact means keeping two hands and a foot, or two feet and a hand, on what you climb. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/8/) — You should move only one hand or foot at a time when you climb. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/9/) — Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/10/) — Branches are thickest and strongest close to the trunk. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/11/) — Climbing down is often harder than climbing up because you cannot see where your feet go. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/12/) — Wet branches and wet climbing frames are slippery. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/13/) — A bike helmet should be taken off before you play on a playground, because its straps can catch. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/14/) — Cords, drawstrings and scarves on clothes can catch on playground equipment and pull tight around your neck. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/15/) — Soft ground like wood chips, sand or rubber under a climbing frame makes falls less dangerous than concrete. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/16/) — Tree climbing should stay well away from power lines. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/18/) — Falls from climbing frames, trees and playground equipment cause most playground injuries. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/19/) — Falling from more than about your own height onto a hard surface can break bones or injure your head. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/20/) — If someone falls from a height and does not move, do not move them; shout for an adult and get help straight away. - ← previous: [Lifting and carrying heavy things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/) - next →: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)