--- title: Thinking cleverly about people — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Thinking cleverly about people», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the outside: a person who snaps at you may be tired, worried or hurting, so --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/) [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/) / Thinking cleverly about people # Thinking cleverly about people Lesson 60 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/60-reasoning-about-people/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/0/) — People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the outside: a person who snaps at you may be tired, worried or hurting, so a calm, kind answer often helps more than snapping back, though rudeness is never something you have to accept forever. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/1/) — Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means everyone gets what they need to have a real chance, like glasses for a child who cannot see the board. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/2/) — Sharing and taking turns are not only kind but clever: a game where one player keeps the ball soon has nobody left to play with, while a game everyone enjoys keeps going. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/4/) — The second kind you always tell a trusted adult. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/5/) — Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cuts and the other chooses, so the cutter has every reason to make the pieces equal. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/6/) — A girl in Texas trusted a new online friend because he knew her school and hobbies; he had simply read her public posts, and he used them to trick her into thinking he knew her. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/8/) — You can see what people do, but not always why they do it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/9/) — People who are tired, worried or sad are more easily grumpy. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/10/) — Fair means everyone gets what they need, which is not always the same thing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/11/) — A game only keeps going if the players are happy to keep playing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/12/) — A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant to be kept forever. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/13/) — A secret that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable should be told to a trusted adult. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/14/) — When one person cuts and the other chooses, the cutter has a reason to cut fairly. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/15/) — A rumour can be untrue, and even a true one can hurt. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/16/) — Someone who is quiet may be shy or new, not unfriendly or «stuck up» (thinking he is better than others). - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/17/) — Grown-ups can be wrong, and some lie, just like children; being older does not make something true. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/18/) — A real apology owns up to what you did without an excuse. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/19/) — Winning by cheating does not show who is really better. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/20/) — Taking turns going first is fair when going first gives an advantage. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/21/) — Spreading a rumour can hurt someone badly even when it turns out to be false. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/22/) — Someone knowing facts about you does not prove they are a friend. - ← previous: [Staying safe and kind online](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)