--- title: Sleepovers and inside jokes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sleepovers and inside jokes», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Lily sleeps over at Maddie's for the first time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) [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/) / Sleepovers and inside jokes # Sleepovers and inside jokes Lesson 462 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 33 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/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/0/) — Lily sleeps over at Maddie's for the first time. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/2/) — «LIGHTS OFF, YOU TWO,» Maddie's dad bellows up the stairs. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/3/) — They finally drop off at three and spend Sunday as grumpy zombies. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/5/) — By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/6/) — Sam and Jake have an inside joke: whenever anyone says «potato», they both shout «PO-TAH-TO» like a posh butler. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/7/) — Nobody else gets it, which is the point. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/9/) — Inside jokes and secret handshakes — bump, spin, clap, finger guns — tie friends together. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/10/) — When three other kids copy the handshake on Sports Day, Sam is half annoyed and half proud. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/11/) — Chloe and Aisha keep a shared diary of jokes and drawings, until Chloe's brother reads it out at dinner; Mum takes his phone for a day, and the diary moves to Aisha's house. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/12/) — Lily keeps a jar of notes from Maddie — silly drawings, «u r the best», a lolly stick — and reads them on sad days. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/13/) — At midnight at a sleepover, Chloe gets homesick and wants to go home. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/15/) — Chloe phones her mum anyway. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/16/) — Next time she stays till eleven and goes home for bed, and nobody mentions it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/17/) — At another sleepover Mia's friends dare her to ring the last number in her mum's phone and say something rude. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/18/) — Mia says no. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/19/) — They call her «boring» for five minutes and then forget. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/20/) — Kieran picks a horror film rated 15; Connor has nightmares for a week and won't admit it, until his mum phones Kieran's mum. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/21/) — Kieran wets the bed at a sleepover. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/22/) — His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and spills a drink «by accident» on the wet one. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/24/) — Kieran never forgets. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/25/) — That's a friend of the very best kind. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/26/) — Meanwhile Jake's mum bans sleepovers for a month because he was rude to his teacher. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/28/) — Jake says sorry to his teacher, and next month the sleepover is back on. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/29/) — At a sleepover the house rules belong to the host's parents, including bedtime. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/31/) — Inside jokes and secret handshakes help friends feel close, but save them for times they won't get you into trouble. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/32/) — Films at a sleepover should suit the age of everyone there; age ratings like 15 exist for a reason. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/33/) — Saying no to a dare that could hurt someone or get you in trouble is being a good friend to yourself. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/34/) — Private things between friends, like a shared diary, need a safe place; if someone breaks that, tell a grown-up. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/35/) — A real friend protects you when you are embarrassed, by being kind, not by hurting anyone else. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/36/) — When a parent cancels plans after a real problem, fixing the problem works better than blaming the parent. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/37/) — Keeping small reminders of good times, like notes or photos, can help on sad days. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/38/) — Every family speaks a bit differently, and asking what a word means is part of being friends. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/39/) — In Newcastle «howay» means «come on» and «pet» is a friendly word like «love»; in the Midlands and the North «mardy» means grumpy or sulky. - ← previous: [How best friends start](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/) - next →: [The best friend who moves away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)