--- title: Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite films watched ten time --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/) [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/) / Favourite films and series: spoilers,… # Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts Lesson 55 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 23 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/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/0/) — Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite films watched ten times, movie nights, crying at sad endings, cheering at happy ones. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/1/) — Grown-ups love them as much as children do. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/2/) — But screens are also a business. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/3/) — Streaming services cost money every month and are built to keep you watching; adverts are made to grab you and make you want things; and age ratings exist because some films are made for older people. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/4/) — Vivid example: in a living room in Brisbane it is movie night. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/5/) — Freya wants the dragon film; her brother wants the football one; they shout. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/6/) — Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/7/) — Now, who's making the popcorn?" - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/8/) — Good habits make screens better, not worse: take turns, don't spoil endings, turn off autoplay, keep screens out of bedrooms at night, and remember that a day without screens makes room for other fun. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/9/) — Rewatching a favourite film is a comfort at any age; grown-ups do it too. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/10/) — A family rota, where each person chooses the film in turn, makes movie night fair. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/11/) — Films often change a book's story to fit the screen and the time; the film is a new telling and the book is still there. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/12/) — A spoiler tells the ending before someone has seen it; it is annoying, and spoiling on purpose is a small meanness that needs a "sorry". - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/13/) — Streaming plays the next episode automatically to keep you watching; turning off autoplay helps you decide when to stop. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/14/) — Binge-watching a whole series in one weekend, with little sleep and no fresh air, can make you feel tired and strange the next day. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/15/) — Adverts are made to stand out, often louder and faster than the programme, and toys in adverts are shown with close-ups and tricks that make them look bigger and better. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/16/) — Food adverts aimed at children have rules about what they can show; a snack does not make a show better. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/17/) — Each streaming service costs money every month and has different shows; families choose which ones are worth paying for. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/18/) — Crying at a sad film or when a favourite character dies is normal and shows you care; sad endings can make a story feel real. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/19/) — Age ratings tell families who a film is made for; in the UK a 12A film can be seen in a cinema by a younger child with an adult, after the parent decides it is right. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/20/) — Screens in bed keep you awake, so many families keep screens downstairs at night. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/21/) — Liking a film has nothing to do with being a boy or a girl, or with your age; you are never too old for something you enjoy. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/22/) — Anyone can make a film with a phone and some toys, and the credits at the end thank the hundreds of people who made a big film. - ← previous: [Reality TV: what is staged and what is real](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/) - next →: [Scary films, nightmares and sad endings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)