--- title: Gran, cousins and the whole wide family — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives by marriage called in- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Gran, cousins and the whole wide family # Gran, cousins and the whole wide family Lesson 17 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/0/) — Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives by marriage called in-laws. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/1/) — A big family brings warmth and noise, and also old quarrels. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/2/) — Some relatives get on, some do not, and a few stop speaking for years. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/3/) — In Cork, twenty-three people squeeze into Gran's house for Christmas. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/4/) — There are not enough chairs, Uncle Rob is missing because of a row, and Aunt Pam says "Blood is thicker than water" over the trifle. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/5/) — Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/6/) — These are ordinary parts of a big family. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/8/) — Dad's mother is Mum's mother-in-law, a relative by marriage, and in-laws do not always find long visits easy. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/) — Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/10/) — "We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling-out, a feud, and some relatives stopped speaking. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/11/) — Family feuds often start over money, a will or hurtful words, and they can last for years. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/) — Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/14/) — A crush means really liking someone and thinking about them a lot; it is a private feeling and often passes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/15/) — A golden wedding anniversary means a couple has been married for fifty years. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/17/) — Sometimes a relative is left out of a family event after an argument the grown-ups think is private. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/18/) — An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died. - ← previous: [New partners and step-families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/) - next →: [We're having a baby!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)