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title: Food on the floor and kitchen rules — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Food on the floor and kitchen rules», a lesson of the myths course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ollie's crisp hits the floor and he snatches it up shouting "Five-second rule!" Germs, sadly, do not own a stopwatch: they can jump on i
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# Food on the floor and kitchen rules

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Lesson 22 of the myths course of Mova's primary school: 12 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/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/0/) — Ollie's crisp hits the floor and he snatches it up shouting "Five-second rule!" Germs, sadly, do not own a stopwatch: they can jump on in less than a second.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/1/) — Kitchen rules come in three kinds: some are true and keep you safe, some are half true, and some are made up and passed from nan to mum to you.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/2/) — Never throwing water on a burning pan is the most important true one: water sinks under the hot oil, turns to steam in a flash and throws burning oil everywhere.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/3/) — Others are just myths: microwaves don't make food radioactive, brown eggs are no healthier than white ones, and a swallowed cherry stone grows no tree.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/4/) — So sort each kitchen rule with one question: "What would really happen, and how do we know?" Keep the safe ones even if the reason you were told was wrong.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/5/) — Germs can move onto food that touches the floor in less than a second; wet food and longer contact pick up more, so the "five-second rule" is not a real safety rule.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/7/) — Microwave ovens heat food by making its water molecules (the tiny bits water is made of) jiggle; this does not make food radioactive.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/9/) — A swallowed cherry stone cannot grow inside you; it passes through, though chewing and eating many cherry stones is not safe.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/10/) — Brown and white eggs have the same goodness inside; shell colour depends on the breed of hen.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/12/) — Never throw water on a burning pan of fat or oil; turn off the heat if it is safe, cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel, get out and call the fire service.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/13/) — Bread crusts are not where all the vitamins are; the crust and the soft inside have almost the same goodness, though browning gives the crust more flavour.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/14/) — Your body digests food at night too; what matters most for weight is how much you eat and move over days, though a big late meal can spoil sleep.

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