--- title: Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: His finger was on the button. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/) [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/) / Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi # Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi Lesson 409 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 32 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/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/1/) — His finger was on the button. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/2/) — Then the screen froze. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/3/) — When it came back, Leo was lying on the floor of the game and the other team was dancing. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/4/) — He shouted «THE INTERNET ROBBED ME!» His dad went detective and found the culprit in the next room: Leo's sister, streaming a film in high quality. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/5/) — A house shares one connection, like a family sharing one bathroom, and when everyone uses it at once, someone waits — that waiting is lag. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/6/) — Kai shouted «LAG!» every time he lost, even when the game ran as smooth as butter. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/7/) — The squad stopped believing him. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/8/) — Then one evening he really did have lag, his character walking into a wall for ten seconds, and nobody believed a word. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/9/) — The boy who cried lag. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/10/) — Jayden's team had the opposite problem: after a loss they all blamed Jayden's lag, until they checked his ping — the number that shows how fast the connection is — and it was 20, which is low and perfectly fine. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/11/) — The other team was just better. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/12/) — Theo decided he was a tech genius and turned the router off and on forty times in one evening. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/13/) — Each time, the whole house lost the internet: his mum's video call, his sister's homework, the smart speaker in the kitchen. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/14/) — His dad gently took the router away. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/15/) — Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/16/) — Priya's game crashed and an hour of Minecraft building vanished, so now she saves often and sets autosave to every five minutes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/17/) — Noah's tablet got so hot from a long game that it switched itself off; it was protecting itself, and his dad said tablet and boy both needed a break. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/18/) — Ruby went to her grandma's in the countryside, where the game would not even load, so she played cards with grandma instead and discovered grandma had the best poker face in the county. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/19/) — Families found fixes together. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/20/) — Ollie's mum turns the wifi off at 8pm, and his squad thought he kept rage-quitting, until he told them about the 8pm rule. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/21/) — Zara plays on an old, slow laptop, so her squad picked games that run fine on old computers. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/22/) — And when Mia's sister kept downloading huge updates in the middle of Mia's matches, the arguing stopped once the two of them agreed set times for big downloads. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/23/) — Lag is a delay between what you press and what happens in an online game. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/24/) — All the devices in a house usually share one internet connection. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/25/) — Films, video calls and big downloads on the same connection can cause lag in games. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/26/) — Ping is a number showing how long data takes to travel; lower ping means less lag. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/27/) — Switching a router off and on cuts the internet for everyone in the house. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/28/) — Saving often protects your work if a game crashes. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/29/) — Devices can switch themselves off when they get too hot, to protect themselves. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/30/) — The countryside often has slower internet than towns and cities. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/31/) — Blaming lag every time makes people stop believing you when it is true. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/32/) — Telling your team about your family's internet rules helps them understand when you go offline. - ← previous: [Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/) - next →: [Strangers who want to chat privately](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)