--- title: Manners and kindness — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Manners and kindness», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/) [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/) / Manners and kindness # Manners and kindness Lesson 51 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/51-manners-and-kindness/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/0/) — Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening without interrupting. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/1/) — They matter because every person has feelings: a kind word makes someone feel noticed, while being ignored, pushed or interrupted makes them feel unimportant. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/2/) — Taking turns is fair: when everyone waits for their go, everyone gets a go, and nobody needs to push or shout. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/3/) — Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/4/) — In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy behind her; he says thank you and smiles, and two tiny acts of kindness leave both of them a little happier. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/5/) — A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started to dread school and cried at home, and it took her months to feel happy there again. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/6/) — A girl in Leeds pushed past people to get on a crowded bus first; she knocked an older lady, who fell and hurt her wrist. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/7/) — Saying please turns an order into a polite request. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/8/) — Saying thank you shows that you noticed what someone did for you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/9/) — When someone thanks you, the polite reply is you are welcome. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/10/) — Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how they feel. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/11/) — Taking turns means everyone gets a fair chance. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/12/) — Good listeners look at the speaker and let them finish before they talk. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/13/) — Interrupting tells the speaker that what they say does not matter to you. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/14/) — If you need to speak while others are talking and it is not an emergency, you wait for a pause and say excuse me. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/15/) — Manners matter with everyone: family, friends, strangers, shop workers and drivers. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/16/) — Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/17/) — Good manners at the table include chewing with your mouth closed and not grabbing food across other people. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/18/) — A good winner says good game, and a good loser congratulates the winner. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/19/) — Unkind words can hurt someone for a long time, much longer than a scratch. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/20/) — Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/21/) — Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/22/) — Questions about someone's private life, such as when they will get married, can upset them, so it is kind to change the subject. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/23/) — When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip. - ← previous: [Thinking like a lifeguard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/) - next →: [Friends, teams and fair play](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)