--- title: Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground», a lesson of the myths course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and… # Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground Lesson 32 of the myths course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/0/) — At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/1/) — Family arguments are a special kind: nobody is going anywhere, and you'll all be at the table again next year. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/2/) — Big brothers are sometimes smug AND right; grandparents learned things long ago, often right then and still partly right now; little sisters need gentleness, not a lecture. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/3/) — The best move is to add to what someone knows instead of knocking it down: "You're right about grown-ups, Grandad, and babies actually have more bones!" - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/4/) — Your big brother is right about blue whales but adds "you're only nine"; your best friend is still cross after you were bossy in a row about chameleons; and Uncle Mike's red-bull line is an old family joke everyone checked years ago, so now it is a tradition, not a fight. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/5/) — And in the playground, when five people laugh at one, the brave thing is to stand by the one, especially when he happens to be right. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/6/) — The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, heavier than any dinosaur found so far. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/7/) — Adults have about 206 bones; babies are born with around 270 to 300, and some fuse (join together) as they grow. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/8/) — The capital of Australia is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne (a deal where each side gives a bit, because both cities wanted to be the capital). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/9/) — Light travels nearly a million times faster than sound, which is why you see lightning before you hear thunder. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/10/) — Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk" is made of tightly rolled leaves. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/11/) — Sugar and honey were used on wounds long ago, and doctors still use special medical-grade honey on some wounds, but at home a cut should just be cleaned and covered. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/12/) — Saturn is less dense (lighter for its size) than water, so in theory it would float, but no bath could ever hold it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/13/) — There is no evidence that eating bananas before a match makes you score more goals; it is a team ritual. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/14/) — Bulls cannot tell red from green; in a bullfight, where a matador waves a cape at the bull, it is the cape's movement that makes them charge. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/15/) — Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/16/) — A dare like "say I'm the cleverest" turns a question into a fight about winning. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/17/) — When one person is laughed at by a group, standing by them takes courage and is kind. - ← previous: [Friends who cling to a legend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/) - next →: [When the teacher gets it wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/) - ↑ back to [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/)