--- title: Teams and voice chat — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Teams and voice chat», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Leo, Kai and Priya joined a Fortnite squad from three different houses, and for the first five minutes all three talked at once: «Where are we landi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/) [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/) / Teams and voice chat # Teams and voice chat Lesson 405 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/405-teams-and-voice-chat/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/0/) — Leo, Kai and Priya joined a Fortnite squad from three different houses, and for the first five minutes all three talked at once: «Where are we landing — no, LEFT — who's got shield — wait, I'm stuck in a bush.» They were knocked out before they'd found a single chest. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/1/) — Next game Priya said, «One at a time. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/2/) — Say where, then what.» «Enemy, blue house, two of them.» They lasted twice as long. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/3/) — Then Ollie forgot his mic was on. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/4/) — The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE! - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/5/) — I WILL NOT SAY IT AGAIN!» Followed by Ollie whispering, «Mum, I'm LIVE.» Kai laughed so much he fell off his beanbag. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/6/) — Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby brother was asleep next door — and her whispered «there's one behind you» was somehow the scariest thing anyone heard all night. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/8/) — «It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,» she explained, in the voice of someone explaining something obvious to a very old person. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/9/) — He went back down to his tea, shaking his head. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/10/) — Gaming talk sounds alarming to people who don't know it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/11/) — Teams go wrong in funny ways too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/12/) — Mia's squad kept losing because all four of them wanted to be the sniper and nobody wanted to heal anyone. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/13/) — In Minecraft, Ruby built an entire castle with towers while Theo «helped» by digging holes, one of which Ruby fell into. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/14/) — Jayden played Dota 2 with his older cousin, was handed a hero he barely knew, and spent the match apologising to four strangers on the team. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/16/) — And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above who shouted orders like a general: «You, there! - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/17/) — Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/18/) — Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life and refuses to join random squads: «I don't know who they are, so no.» Good teams share jobs, take turns, talk clearly and kindly, and laugh at the tea moments. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/19/) — A bossy captain isn't a good one, and you are allowed to leave a game that has stopped being fun. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/20/) — When everyone talks at once on voice chat, nobody can understand anything. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/21/) — Short, clear messages that say where and what help a team most. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/22/) — A microphone left on can let everyone in the game hear what is happening in your home. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/23/) — Most consoles and games let you mute your microphone and let parents limit voice chat to friends. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/24/) — Playing only with people you know in real life is safer than joining strangers. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/25/) — Game slang such as «push» and «one shot» can sound frightening to people who do not play. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/26/) — A good team shares out jobs instead of everyone wanting the same one. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/27/) — Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mistake can distract the team. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/28/) — A good leader gives clear instructions politely and does not insult players. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/29/) — You can leave a game or a group if someone is being nasty, and tell an adult if it keeps happening. - ← previous: [Parents' rules for big games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/) - next →: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)