--- title: Fighting games at a friend's house — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fighting games at 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: Theo's big brother Callum has Mortal Kombat, a fighting game with a big «18» on the box. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-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/) / Fighting games at a friend's house # Fighting games at a friend's house Lesson 401 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 27 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/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/0/) — Theo's big brother Callum has Mortal Kombat, a fighting game with a big «18» on the box. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/1/) — One Saturday Theo's parents popped out to the shops, and Theo texted the boys: «callum's out, come round NOW». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/2/) — Ollie, Leo and Kai were on his sofa in ten minutes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/3/) — Ollie isn't allowed 18 games at home, so his heart was banging before the game even loaded. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/4/) — It was gorier than any of them expected. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/5/) — Leo announced he had «seen all the fatalities already, they're nothing» — and then watched the whole thing through his fingers, eyes shut. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/7/) — Nobody mentioned that Tekken has its own age rating, and it isn't 7. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/8/) — When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's for boys.» Zara rolled her eyes: «I beat you at every racing game you own, Theo.» - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/9/) — Then came the group chat. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/10/) — Theo posted a photo of the screen: «MK at mine lol». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/11/) — Ollie's mum is in that group chat with the other parents, because Theo's mum had added her. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/12/) — By the time Ollie got home she was waiting in the hall. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/14/) — It was that she found out before he told her. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/15/) — Compare that with Jayden. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/16/) — His dad plays a 16 fighting game with him on Sunday mornings, sitting right next to him. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/18/) — The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afternoon on a racing game and a building game anyway. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/19/) — Age ratings tell you what is IN a game — violence, blood, scary bits, bad language — not how hard it is. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/21/) — And every house has its own rules: being a good guest means keeping to the rules of your own parents, even when the adults in charge aren't watching. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/22/) — Video game age ratings, such as PEGI in the UK and Europe and ESRB in the USA and Canada, show which ages a game's content is suitable for. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/23/) — Ratings are about content such as violence, blood, fear and bad language, not about how difficult a game is. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/25/) — A game with no blood can still be rated 12 or 16 for its fighting and violence. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/26/) — Different families have different rules about games, and a guest's own parents' rules still count. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/27/) — Things done in secret often come out, through photos, chats or brothers and sisters. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/28/) — Parents are usually more upset about being lied to than about the thing itself. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/29/) — Games are not «for boys» or «for girls»; anyone of the right age can play them. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/30/) — Pretending you are not scared is very common, and many people cover their eyes at gory bits. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/31/) — Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less frightening and easier to understand. - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Nightmares after a scary game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)