--- title: Left out without a console — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Left out without a console», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every lunchtime the table talked about one thing: the new game. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-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/) / Left out without a console # Left out without a console Lesson 399 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 33 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/399-left-out-without-a-console/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/0/) — Every lunchtime the table talked about one thing: the new game. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/1/) — Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just didn't like games» and stared at her sandwich. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/2/) — Then Ruby asked Zara to explain her favourite board game. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/3/) — Zara explained it so well that half the table played it at break, and by Friday two boys were arguing about its rules instead of the game's. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/4/) — Not having something is not the same as being boring. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/5/) — Kai's parents said no console at home until he was twelve. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/6/) — Kai declared it the most unfair rule in the history of the world. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/7/) — Then, with all that spare time, he got so good at drawing and football that the class asked him to design the team badge. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/8/) — Ollie had no phone, so he was not in the class group chat, and every Monday he heard everyone laughing at a joke he had not seen. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/9/) — Priya started telling him the funniest bits at break, and he laughed louder than anyone. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/10/) — Theo told Zara, «You can't play with us, you don't even know the game.» Mia said everyone was new once and taught Zara in five minutes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/11/) — Noah, scared of being left out, lied that he had the game at home, then went red when Jayden asked which level he was on. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/12/) — He told Jayden the truth. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/14/) — Mia's sofa fitted five, and the sixth kid always ended up on the floor. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/15/) — So they piled cushions on the floor and called it the VIP section, and suddenly everyone wanted it. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/16/) — Ruby could only play on Saturdays, so Mia saved the best challenge for Saturdays. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/17/) — Leo's console was his uncle's old one, and the kids laughed at the blocky graphics, until they found the old two-player games were hilarious and started asking to come round for «the retro ones». - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/18/) — One Wednesday Jayden saw Zara watching from the side, quiet. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/19/) — He handed her his controller for a whole match. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/20/) — Zara felt seen, and a bit shy. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/21/) — She lost badly, laughed a lot, and asked to come again. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/22/) — Being invited mattered more to her than winning. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/23/) — Many families cannot afford a console, or choose not to have one, and that is nothing to be ashamed of. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/24/) — Asking a left-out friend what they like, and doing it sometimes, brings them back into the group. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/25/) — Not everyone sees what happens in group chats, so telling friends the good bits in person keeps them included. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/26/) — Everyone who is good at a game was once a beginner. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/27/) — Teaching a newcomer is kinder than turning them away. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/28/) — A small lie to fit in can make you feel more alone, not less. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/29/) — How you name a place, like calling the floor the VIP section, can change how it feels to sit there. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/30/) — Good friends plan big moments for when everyone can come. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/31/) — Fun does not depend on how new or shiny a game is. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/32/) — Offering a go to someone watching from the side can matter more to them than winning. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/33/) — A no from parents for one thing can leave time for other things to grow. - ← previous: [Sore losers and button-mashers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/) - next →: [What the numbers on the box mean](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)