--- title: Family game night — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Family game night», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The whole of Mia's family played a racing game on Saturday, and everyone was sure Grandad would come last: he held the controller upside down for the f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/) [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/) / Family game night # Family game night Lesson 425 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 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/425-family-game-night/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/0/) — The whole of Mia's family played a racing game on Saturday, and everyone was sure Grandad would come last: he held the controller upside down for the first lap. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/1/) — Then he won. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/2/) — It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work». - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/3/) — Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for no reason». - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/4/) — Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/5/) — Theo's mum has been the family champion at a board game for six years. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/6/) — Theo has lost about two hundred times. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/7/) — Last Friday he finally won, jumped onto the sofa, and then saw his mum's face, and for one second worried she was upset. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/8/) — She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/9/) — Noah's dad plays a quiz game as if he knows everything. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/10/) — He told everyone with great confidence that a spider has six legs. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/11/) — The family has not let him forget it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/12/) — In Ruby's house it is the dance game. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/13/) — Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling down the stairs, but he kept going, laughing louder every round, and Ruby laughed so much she could not dance either. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/14/) — Jayden's grandma brought an old card game from when she was a girl, and beat the whole family at it, including Jayden's uncle, who «doesn't lose at cards». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/15/) — Zara's family plays Minecraft together on one big screen, and her little brother mainly builds toilets. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/16/) — Some families pick games where nobody loses alone. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/17/) — Ollie's family plays cooperative games, where everyone works together against the game, and wins or loses together, so nobody sulks. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/18/) — Leo's family plays on mixed teams, grown-ups and kids together, so the kids are not always beaten by the grown-ups, and the grown-ups have to explain things nicely. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/19/) — Kai's family plays a party game every Friday, and the best part, Kai says, is not the game: it is the hour when nobody is in a hurry. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/20/) — Family game nights are a way to spend time together and laugh, not only to win. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/21/) — Older people can surprise you, because they bring skills and experience from their whole lives. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/22/) — A win feels real and earned when the other player did not let you win. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/23/) — A good winner is happy without rubbing it in, and a good loser congratulates the winner. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/24/) — In cooperative games the players work together against the game and win or lose as a team. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/25/) — Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make people explain things kindly. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/26/) — Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention to each other. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/27/) — Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part of the evening. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/28/) — A spider has eight legs, and an insect has six. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/29/) — Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun to play today. - ← previous: [Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)