--- title: Boredom, excitement and pride — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Boredom, excitement and pride», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Boredom is the restless feeling of having nothing to do; it is not a disaster but a chance, because boredom is often where new ideas, games --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/) [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/) / Boredom, excitement and pride # Boredom, excitement and pride Lesson 93 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/0/) — Boredom is the restless feeling of having nothing to do; it is not a disaster but a chance, because boredom is often where new ideas, games and stories begin. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/1/) — Excitement is a happy, fizzy feeling full of energy; it is great, but it can keep you awake, make you shout indoors or make you interrupt, so it helps to know how to calm it down. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/2/) — Pride is the warm feeling when you have done something well; being proud of your effort is good, but boasting about what you have makes others feel small. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/3/) — Big moments often bring two feelings at once, such as excited and nervous before a first day, and that is completely normal. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/4/) — A girl in Vancouver is bored on a rainy Saturday with no screens; she builds a blanket den, reads a comic inside it, and by lunchtime she has written a story about a dragon who lives in a den. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/5/) — Boredom is often the start of creativity. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/6/) — On a rainy day you can build a den, read, draw, write a story, do a puzzle or help cook. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/7/) — Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/8/) — Learning to fill your own free time is a skill; a list of things you like doing helps. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/9/) — If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/11/) — Running and shouting indoors can disturb others and cause accidents, so let energy out outside. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/12/) — Waiting for a pause before you speak shows people respect. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/13/) — Being proud of your effort encourages you to keep improving. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/14/) — Boasting makes others feel small and pushes friends away. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/15/) — Having two feelings at once, like excited and nervous, is normal. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/16/) — A feelings diary helps you notice what makes you happy or upset. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/17/) — A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/18/) — A girl in Leeds was so excited at her party that she ran around the pool edge; she slipped on the wet tiles and needed stitches in her chin. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/19/) — Many childhood injuries happen when children are bored and try risky things to pass the time. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/20/) — When you are very excited, it is easy to stop noticing dangers like wet floors, roads and water. - ← previous: [Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/92-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment/) - next →: [Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)