--- title: How best friends start — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «How best friends start», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/) [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/) / How best friends start # How best friends start Lesson 461 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 31 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/461-how-best-friends-start/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/0/) — Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/2/) — Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/3/) — Lily asks if they'll still be friends when they're old. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/5/) — «We'll be the two old ladies at bingo.» Big friendships often start with something tiny. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/6/) — Sam and Jake became mates when Jake laughed at Sam's joke about the dinner lady's gravy («it's not gravy, it's a brown lake»). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/7/) — Nobody else got it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/9/) — Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in defence, and they spent the whole match chatting about Minecraft. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/10/) — They stayed on the team two years, still terrible, still laughing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/11/) — Chloe tried to buy friends. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/12/) — She bought sweets for the popular girls every day for a week. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/13/) — When the money ran out, so did they. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/14/) — She ended up sitting with Aisha, who shared her crisps for nothing, and they became proper friends. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/15/) — Mia's new classmate Zoe is from Texas. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/16/) — On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/17/) — Mia didn't think anyone would ask her that fast. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/18/) — One brave invite started it all. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/19/) — Best friends don't have to do everything together. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/20/) — Sam wants chess club; Jake says chess is «mid» — Gen Z for boring, nothing special. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/21/) — They argue, then Sam goes to chess and Jake to football, and they still sit together at lunch. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/22/) — When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face drops; so the three of them make friendship bracelets instead. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/24/) — And some best mates are family: Sam and his cousin Ollie build a top-secret den in Grandad's garden every holiday, and Grandad pretends not to know who built it. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/26/) — Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/27/) — You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/28/) — You can't buy friends: if the friendship stops when the gifts stop, it wasn't friendship. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/29/) — Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/30/) — Best friends can like different things and do different hobbies and still be close. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/31/) — Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/33/) — Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/34/) — Cousins, brothers and sisters can be best friends too. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/35/) — Judge a friend by how they treat you, not only by what others say about them. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/36/) — «Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or quietly, «ngl» means «not gonna lie», and «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». - ← previous: [The pet that loves you most](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/) - next →: [Sleepovers and inside jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)