--- title: Facing fears — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Facing fears», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/) [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/) / Facing fears # Facing fears Lesson 90 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/90-facing-fears/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/0/) — Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/1/) — Fears shrink when you know the facts, when you talk about them with someone you trust, when you have a plan, and when you face them in small steps. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/2/) — Slow breathing helps with every fear: breathe in through your nose and out slowly through your mouth, and your body calms down. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/3/) — A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimming teacher, a little deeper each week, and by the summer she jumps in with a smile while the lifeguard watches. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/4/) — Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/5/) — Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing help, and the fear often fades once you start. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/6/) — Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/7/) — A vaccination stings for only a second, and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses; telling the nurse, looking away and breathing out slowly helps. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/8/) — Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/9/) — In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is: the longer the gap, the further away it is, so a growing gap means it is moving away. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/10/) — Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an adult to move them, and in Australia some spiders need an adult. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/11/) — Courage in the water grows by small steps with a teacher, and you only swim where an adult is watching. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/12/) — Worries kept inside grow, so tell your parents about them and ask for the real facts. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/13/) — The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/14/) — Agreeing a meeting place with your family before going into a crowd means you know what to do if you get lost; if you are lost, ask a staff member or a parent with children for help. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/15/) — A girl in Florida was too scared to tell anyone she could not swim and went into the deep end with friends; a lifeguard had to pull her out. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/16/) — A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for weeks; by the time he went, the tooth needed taking out instead of a small filling. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/17/) — Hiding a fear sometimes leads people into danger, while telling an adult gets help. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/18/) — Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support. - ← previous: [Handling anger](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/) - next →: [Worry and sadness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)