--- title: Life is precious: wonder and gratitude — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Each person gets one life on this earth, and nobody else can live it for them; that is a big part of why every life, yours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Life is precious: wonder and gratitude # Life is precious: wonder and gratitude Lesson 54 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 13 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/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/0/) — Each person gets one life on this earth, and nobody else can live it for them; that is a big part of why every life, yours and everyone else's, is precious. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/1/) — Picture Luca's class watching a film of a chick pecking its way out of an egg with a tiny tooth on its beak that nobody taught it to use; the whole class goes «awww», and that feeling is wonder. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/3/) — Ordinary days with food, safety and family are something many people in the world do not have, so a «boring» day is also a lucky one, though it is still fine to feel bored or disappointed. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/4/) — Thankfulness leads to kindness: we do not hurt living things for fun, and at harvest festival churches fill up with tins and bread to share with people who do not have enough. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/5/) — Each person has one life on this earth; nobody else can live it for them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/6/) — A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell using a small «egg tooth» on its beak. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/7/) — Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happier. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/8/) — Christians say grace before meals and thank God for big and small things; many Jews and Muslims also give thanks at meals. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/9/) — Muslims say «Alhamdulillah», which means «praise be to God», when good things happen; Jews say blessings called brachot; Christians may say «Thanks be to God». - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/10/) — A snail is a living creature; killing animals for fun is unkind, and Buddhists and Jains try not to harm any living thing at all. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/13/) — Harvest festival thanks God for food; churches collect food for food banks, which give food to people who do not have enough. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/14/) — Other faiths have harvest festivals too, such as the Jewish Sukkot and the Hindu Pongal. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/15/) — Big feelings can come out as tears, both sad and happy; at a baptism the church thanks God for a child's life. - ← previous: [Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/) - next →: [When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)