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title: Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Frustration is the hot, stuck feeling when something will not work; a short break, a fresh look and asking for he
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# Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

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Lesson 94 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/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/0/) — Frustration is the hot, stuck feeling when something will not work; a short break, a fresh look and asking for help usually beat giving up, because a rested brain sees what it missed.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/1/) — Loneliness is feeling that nobody is with you; other children often feel it too, and clubs, teams, buddy benches and keeping in touch with people far away all help.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/2/) — Guilt is the bad feeling after you have hurt someone; it shows that you care, and saying sorry and doing something kind lets it go.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/3/) — Brothers and sisters share a home, so fair rules agreed together (taking turns, knocking, quiet times) stop the same fights happening again and again.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/4/) — A boy in Ohio cannot finish his Lego spaceship; he has a drink, looks at the instructions again, spots a missing piece on page 12, and the ship holds together at last.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/5/) — When you are stuck, a short break and reading the question again help, and then you can ask for help.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/6/) — Most builders have to try many times before a model works.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/7/) — Other children often feel lonely at break time too, and a buddy bench or club can help.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/8/) — Clubs, teams and library groups help you make friends in a new town.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/9/) — Letters, video calls and a calendar help when a parent works far away or is deployed (sent away to work) in the military.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/10/) — Guilt shows that you care, and saying sorry and being kind helps fix things.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/11/) — Younger siblings copy older ones because they admire them and learn by watching.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/12/) — Fair rules, like a timer for turns, stop the same argument happening again.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/13/) — Everyone deserves some private space, so ask siblings calmly to knock.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/14/) — Tell an adult about a sibling only when someone is hurt, in danger or breaking an important rule.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/15/) — Parents love each child, but they may not know how you feel unless you tell them.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/16/) — Older siblings need time with friends their own age.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/17/) — A secret that makes you worry about someone's safety is told to a trusted adult, even if you promised to keep it.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/18/) — When parents say they «need some time apart», they live in different homes for a while to sort things out; it is never the child's fault.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/19/) — Boys and girls can be just friends; teasing that a friend is your boyfriend or girlfriend is not funny if it upsets you, and a parent can help.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/20/) — A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tore up his book; he had to redo all the pages and still did not understand the sums until he asked for help.
- [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/21/) — A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking online to a stranger who said he was a kid; he was an adult who asked for photos, and she told her mum, who stopped it and reported him.
- [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/22/) — Lonely children are sometimes targeted online by adults pretending to be friends.
- [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/23/) — When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help work better than giving up or breaking things.

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