--- title: Trusted adults and asking for help — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Trusted adults and asking for help», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, and helps you when something is wrong: a parent or carer, a grandpar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/) [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/) / Trusted adults and asking for help # Trusted adults and asking for help Lesson 56 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/0/) — A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, and helps you when something is wrong: a parent or carer, a grandparent, a teacher, the school nurse or counsellor, a sports coach. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/1/) — It is wise to have several trusted adults, at least one at home and one at school; some children count five of them on the fingers of one hand, so that if one is busy or does not listen, they go to the next. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/2/) — Asking for help is not weak or babyish; adults ask for help all the time, and a problem shared early is usually much easier to fix. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/4/) — A girl in Florida gets lost in a big shopping mall; she stays inside, goes to a shop counter and tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, which she knows by heart, and soon her mum is on the way. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/5/) — A boy in Texas hurt his knee badly on a trampoline but did not tell anyone because he thought he would get in trouble; it got much worse before he saw a doctor. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/6/) — A girl in Glasgow told the first adult she trusted, the school nurse, that she felt unsafe walking home; the nurse spoke to her parents and they changed how she got home. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/7/) — A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe and listens to you. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/8/) — Parents, carers, grandparents, teachers, school nurses and coaches can be trusted adults. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/9/) — It is good to have trusted adults both at home and at school. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/10/) — If one trusted adult does not listen, you tell another one. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/11/) — Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/12/) — The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/13/) — The emergency number is 999 in the UK and Ireland, and 112 also works there. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/15/) — Emergency numbers are only for real emergencies, never for jokes. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/16/) — Every child should know their full name, their address and a parent's phone number. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/17/) — If you are lost in a shop, a worker at the counter or wearing a name badge can help you. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/18/) — Police officers, firefighters and paramedics are there to help children who are in trouble. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/19/) — Small problems that are hidden can grow into big ones. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/20/) — Trusted adults would much rather hear about a problem early than find out late. - ← previous: [Bullying and how to stop it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/) - next →: [My body belongs to me](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)