--- title: People and society — communities, work, money and rules — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «People and society — communities, work, money and rules», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A community is a group of people who live, learn or work together and help one another — a family, a class, a villag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / People and society — communities, work… # People and society — communities, work, money and rules Lesson 58 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/world/58-people-and-society/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/0/) — A community is a group of people who live, learn or work together and help one another — a family, a class, a village, a city or a whole country. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/1/) — In a community people do different jobs: farmers grow food, doctors treat illness, teachers teach, builders build. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/2/) — Because each person does what they are good at and swaps the results, everyone gets more than they could make alone. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/3/) — Long ago people traded by barter — swapping a sack of grain for a pair of shoes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/4/) — Money made trade easier, because everyone accepts it and it can be saved and counted. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/5/) — People earn money by working and spend it on what they need. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/6/) — Rules and laws help people live together safely and fairly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/7/) — Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow them; traffic lights are a law that stops crashes at crossroads. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/8/) — Every person has rights, such as the right to be safe, to learn and to be treated fairly, and duties, such as respecting others and following the rules. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/9/) — Kindness and fairness make a community a good place for everyone, not only for the strongest. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/10/) — A community is a group of people who live, learn or work together. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/11/) — People do different jobs and exchange what they make or the services they give. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/12/) — Bartering means swapping goods without using money. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/13/) — Money makes trading easier because everyone accepts it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/14/) — People earn money by working and spend it on needs and wants. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/15/) — Needs are things we must have to live, like food, water and shelter; wants are things that are nice to have. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/16/) — Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/17/) — Laws are rules for a whole country that everyone must follow. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/18/) — Every child has the right to be safe, to learn and to be treated fairly. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/19/) — Rights come with duties, such as respecting other people's rights. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/20/) — Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring friends. - ← previous: [Caring for the environment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/) - next →: [Inventions, computers and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)