--- title: Video calls and visiting a friend's house — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Video calls and visiting a friend's house», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Before visiting a friend you ask your parent, and an adult must know where you are and when to collect you. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Video calls and visiting a friend's ho… # Video calls and visiting a friend's house Lesson 129 of the everyday 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/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/1/) — Before visiting a friend you ask your parent, and an adult must know where you are and when to collect you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/2/) — A good guest follows the hosts' rules, stays in the rooms they are invited into, helps tidy up, and owns up straight away if something breaks. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/3/) — Being a guest never means doing something dangerous or against your family's rules: you say no and can phone your parents to go home. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/4/) — A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house; she tells the mum at once and says sorry, and the mum is far less upset than if she had found it hidden. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/5/) — On a video call you sit facing the camera in a quiet place with good light. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/6/) — Before showing other people on camera, you check that they are happy to be seen. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/7/) — On a video call you sit still and do not eat while you talk. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/8/) — Before visiting a friend, you ask your parent, and an adult must know where you are and when to collect you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/9/) — A guest follows the hosts' rules, even if the rules at home are different. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/10/) — Rooms you are not invited into and cupboards are private. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/11/) — Before going home you help tidy up the mess you made. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/12/) — If you cannot eat a food for religious, allergy or diet reasons, you say "No, thank you, I can't eat that". - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/13/) — If a friend wants to do something dangerous or against your family's rules, you say no and can phone your parents. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/14/) — At a sleepover you bring your own things, follow bedtime rules and thank the family in the morning. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/15/) — If you break something, you tell the adult straight away and say sorry. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/16/) — If the family is busy or sad, you are quiet and helpful and ask if you should go home early. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/17/) — A girl in Florida left her camera on during a video call and walked around in her pyjamas; a classmate took a screenshot and shared it, and she was embarrassed for weeks. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/18/) — A boy in Leeds went to a friend's house and they went off to the river without telling the parent at home; nobody knew where they were until a neighbour spotted them. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/19/) — Anything on a video call can be screenshotted or recorded and shared. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/20/) — The view from your window on a call can show where you live, so you do not show it to people you do not know well. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/23/) — When visiting, you only go somewhere new if the adult in charge knows and agrees. - ← previous: [A guest at the table, and manners on the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/) - next →: [Birthday parties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)