--- title: Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight», a lesson of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out loud in class, and then live for days in your --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames… # Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight Lesson 10 of the reflection course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/0/) — Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out loud in class, and then live for days in your head, getting bigger every time you check or replay it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/1/) — Someone posted a photo of Ollie mid-sneeze in the class group chat with a mean caption, and thirty laughing faces appeared in five minutes; Ollie lay in bed refreshing it till midnight: "Even Tom put a laughing face. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/2/) — Tom's meant to be my mate." - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/3/) — A laughing emoji takes one second, and most people added it without thinking about him at all; that does not make it okay, but it means the "whole class hates me" story in his head was much bigger than the truth, and every refresh fed the hurt. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/4/) — What helped was taking screenshots, showing Mum, the teacher getting the photo removed, Tom saying sorry, and muting the chat at night; posting someone to laugh at them is bullying, and it is the poster who did wrong, not the one in the photo. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/5/) — The disaster we imagine is usually much bigger than what really happens next, and when it truly is unfair, like being blamed for someone else's food fight or having a private photo shared, telling a grown-up fast is not grassing, it is getting it fixed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/6/) — Posting a photo of someone to laugh at them, and "piling on" (everyone joining in), is a form of bullying; saving screenshots as proof and telling a grown-up is the right move. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/7/) — Checking a hurtful post again and again feeds the hurt; muting a chat at night can help. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/8/) — Reading test scores out loud turns a private mark into a public label; a low score shows what you haven't learned yet, not how clever you are. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/9/) — Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words stick because they come at a weak moment, but they are not the truth. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/12/) — Voices crack sometimes, more as children grow; it happens to everyone, and avoiding reading out loud makes the fear grow. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/13/) — Not having much money is nothing to be ashamed of; many families are in the same boat ("skint" and "hard up" mean short of money), and a teacher should not share family money matters in front of a class. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/14/) — Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly thing, not the bravery, and a bigger dare usually digs the hole deeper. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/15/) — Photos of a child without clothes, even baby photos, should never be shared; consent means saying yes before something happens, and telling a grown-up fast is right. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/16/) — Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if you can laugh at yourself. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/17/) — Being told off in public hurts more than in private, and being wrongly blamed adds a feeling of injustice that lasts after others forget. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/18/) — Embarrassment changes how we see things: people who were worried about us can look, in our memory, as if they were laughing. - ← previous: [Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/9-humiliated-in-front-of-everyone-the-moment-that-won-t-go-away/) - next →: [Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/) - ↑ back to [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/)