--- title: The older kid's «trade» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The older kid's «trade»», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A Year 8 kid in Manchester offered Ollie, in Year 5, a trade: «My shiny card for your three good ones, it's a steal for you, our kid.» The shiny --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/) [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/) / The older kid's «trade» # The older kid's «trade» Lesson 445 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 35 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/445-the-older-kids-trade/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/0/) — A Year 8 kid in Manchester offered Ollie, in Year 5, a trade: «My shiny card for your three good ones, it's a steal for you, our kid.» The shiny card was a fake printed at home. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/1/) — Ollie's brother saw it and made the older kid give the cards back. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/2/) — Ollie was embarrassed but relieved. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/3/) — Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones: a deal that looks generous, said fast, by someone bigger than you, with no time to check. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/5/) — He rode off round the corner and didn't come back. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/6/) — Jaylen's dad found the scooter dumped two streets away, scratched. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/7/) — In Liverpool a big lad told Ben, «Swap you my phone for your bike, it's boss, worth way more» — in Liverpool «boss» means brilliant. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/8/) — The phone was locked to someone else's account. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/9/) — Ben's mum asked where it came from; it went to the police, and Ben got his bike back — just. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/10/) — A swap «worth way more» usually hides something: broken, stolen or fake. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/11/) — Some «deals» are just taking. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/13/) — Isla paid for three weeks before her mum noticed and the school stopped it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/14/) — Real friends don't charge. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/16/) — The game never came: «Ach, it glitched, the money's gone.» Money doesn't vanish — the cousin had spent it, and paid it back week by week, mardy (sulky) with Callum for a month. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/17/) — Watch for invented prices and fuzzy words. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/18/) — At the skatepark in Adelaide a teen told Kai, «Mate, you owe me twenty bucks for that lesson.» He'd shown Kai one trick, for fun; nobody had said a price. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/20/) — Sam did his big brother's chores for a week for «my old PS4». - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/21/) — His brother said «Psych! - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/22/) — I meant my PS4 games case» («psych» means «tricked you»). - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/23/) — After Mum made it fair, Sam always said deals back out loud: «So I get exactly what?» - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/24/) — Small cons are everywhere. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/25/) — At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — gravel from the car park — for a pound each. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/26/) — A teen on a bus in Singapore offered Rohan «a better phone case, half price, can or not?» («can or not» means «yes or no?»). - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/29/) — Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence to get unfair trades from younger ones. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/30/) — A trade that seems far too generous often hides something broken, stolen or fake. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/31/) — Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/32/) — «I'll bring it right back» from someone you don't know is a common way things get stolen. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/33/) — Friendship you have to pay for is not friendship; it is taking, and a grown-up should know. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/34/) — Money spent online does not vanish; it goes somewhere and leaves a receipt. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/35/) — You do not owe money for something when no price was agreed beforehand. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/36/) — Saying a deal back out loud, exactly, stops tricks with fuzzy words. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/37/) — Nobody can sell real magic; if they could, they would not sell it for a pound. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/38/) — Things sold by strangers on buses or in car parks usually cannot be returned. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/39/) — Keep your own things with you; «looking after» something does not mean using it. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/40/) — «Nah, sorry» is a full answer; you don't have to give reasons to a pushy older kid. - ← previous: [«Free skins» and scams in games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/444-free-skins-and-scams-in-games/) - next →: [A stranger's story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)