--- title: Mia gets the newest console — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Mia gets the newest console», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: By Monday half of Year 5 wanted to come round, and her mum had to stick a list on the fridge. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/) [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/) / Mia gets the newest console # Mia gets the newest console Lesson 396 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 31 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/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/1/) — By Monday half of Year 5 wanted to come round, and her mum had to stick a list on the fridge. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/2/) — Leo, who had never said a word to Mia, suddenly saved her a seat at lunch every single day. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/3/) — But he only ever asked about the console, and after a while Mia felt a bit hollow. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/4/) — Mia's mum said four friends at a time. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/5/) — On Saturday nine turned up at the door. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/6/) — Five went home grumpy, Mia went red, and her mum made a rota so everybody got a Saturday. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/7/) — Meanwhile Ruby, Mia's best friend since Reception, was squashed onto the arm of the sofa by six new kids. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/8/) — She went quiet. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/9/) — Mia noticed and kept one Saturday morning just for the two of them, with pancakes and no crowd. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/10/) — The first week had its disasters. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/11/) — Jayden knocked orange squash over the brand new controller. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/12/) — Mia felt a flash of real anger, and Jayden felt terrible and said sorry at once. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/13/) — Mia's dad helped them dry it with a hairdryer on the cool setting, it worked again, and Jayden bought her a controller skin with his pocket money. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/14/) — Then the fan got loud and Leo yelled «it's going to explode!» Mia panicked and pulled the plug in the middle of a save. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/15/) — The save was gone. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/16/) — Her dad showed her the console just needed space around it for air, and they moved it off the carpet. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/17/) — Not everyone was happy for her. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/18/) — Ollie said he had the newest console too, but his was the old one with a sticker on it, and he felt ashamed and scared that someone would come round and see. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/20/) — Theo said Mia only got it because her parents were rich. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/21/) — Mia wanted to say something mean back, but she calmly told him the truth: they had saved for months and skipped a holiday. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/22/) — Her little cousin called her «console girl», and it caught on, so Mia announced she also wanted to be known for cartwheels and did one in the playground to prove it. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/23/) — The best moment of the month? - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/24/) — Grandma asked for a go, held the controller upside down, won one race completely by accident and talked about it at every family dinner for a month. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/25/) — A new thing feels best when the people you like get to enjoy it too. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/26/) — Some people want to be your friend because of something you own; it is fair to notice who likes you and who likes your stuff. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/27/) — Old friends can feel pushed out when a house suddenly becomes popular. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/29/) — Owning an accident and saying sorry quickly is what friends remember. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/31/) — Switching a console off at the plug in the middle of a save can lose the game you were playing. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/32/) — Lying about what you own to keep up usually makes you more nervous than the thing ever would. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/33/) — Jealousy often comes out as a mean guess, and a calm, true answer works better than a mean one back. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/34/) — A thing you own is not the whole of who you are. - ← previous: [What everyone learned about fights](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/) - next →: [Whose turn is it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)