--- title: Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kai's team was losing a Fortnite match, and Kai felt the heat rise up his neck. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/) [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/) / Rage-quitting, ranked games and the ca… # Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar Lesson 407 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 35 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/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/0/) — Kai's team was losing a Fortnite match, and Kai felt the heat rise up his neck. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/1/) — He pressed «quit». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/2/) — For one second it felt brilliant. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/3/) — Then he pictured his four friends, still in the match, now four against five. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/4/) — The next day the squad played without him, and nobody said why, because nobody had to. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/5/) — Rage-quitting feels good for one second and costs much more afterwards. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/6/) — Ranked games give you a badge — bronze, silver, gold — that goes up when you win and down when you lose. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/7/) — Priya dropped a rank after five losses and decided to play until she won it back. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/8/) — At 11pm she had lost two more ranks, her eyes were stinging and she slept badly. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/9/) — Chasing a lost rank while you are upset usually loses more. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/10/) — Theo, meanwhile, loved his gold badge more than his school report, until his mum asked what the badge actually does, and all Theo could say was «it's... gold». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/11/) — Being «tilted» means you are so annoyed you start playing worse and worse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/12/) — When Ollie got tilted, his team laughed, which made him angrier. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/14/) — He walked to the kitchen, drank some water, came back and laughed with them. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/15/) — Leo did not take five: he slammed his laptop shut, a thin crack appeared across the screen, and his dad was very much not laughing. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/16/) — Jayden found the cure. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/17/) — He keeps a «calm jar»: one marble for every match he finishes without shouting. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/18/) — After a month it was full, and his dad took him for ice cream. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/20/) — Calm jar.» He laughed and put a marble in. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/21/) — He once unplugged the router mid-match so the loss «wouldn't count». - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/22/) — His sister's online lesson cut out, the whole house lost the internet, and the game counted the loss anyway. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/23/) — Noah blamed his teammates for every loss, until they watched the replay together: he had been knocked out first every single time. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/24/) — It is easier to see other people's mistakes than your own. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/25/) — And Ruby was too nervous to play ranked at all, until she tried one ranked game with two friends sitting beside her. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/26/) — She lost, and found it was fine. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/27/) — Rage-quitting means leaving a match in anger before it ends. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/28/) — When one player quits a team game, the rest of the team plays one person short. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/29/) — In ranked games your rank goes up when you win and down when you lose. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/30/) — Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more losses. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/32/) — A short break of about five minutes calms most anger down. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/33/) — Standing up and walking away is safer than hitting or slamming things in anger. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/34/) — Games usually still count a match as lost if a player disconnects or quits. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/35/) — Counting a good habit, like with a jar of marbles, makes it easier to keep. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/36/) — Grown-ups get angry at games too, and they can learn calm tricks from children. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/37/) — It is easier to see other people's mistakes than your own. - ← previous: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/) - next →: [Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)