--- title: The best friend who moves away — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The best friend who moves away», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Maddie's family is moving to Australia. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/) [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/) / The best friend who moves away # The best friend who moves away Lesson 463 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/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/0/) — Maddie's family is moving to Australia. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/1/) — Lily finds out a month before, and they cry in the school toilets until the bell. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/2/) — On her last day Maddie gives everyone a cupcake. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/3/) — Kieran, who teased her for years, mumbles, «Gonna miss you, Mads, no cap,» — «no cap» means «for real, no lie» — and goes red when she hugs him. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/4/) — They make a plan: a video call every Saturday. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/5/) — Because of the time difference, it's Saturday morning for Lily and Saturday evening in Perth, the big city of Western Australia. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/7/) — They laugh till they cry, and Lily starts a list of Aussie words. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/8/) — But by month three Maddie misses two Saturdays because of netball, and Lily feels forgotten. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/9/) — Instead of sulking, they pick a new time that works for both. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/10/) — The calls get shorter, but steadier. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/12/) — On a call, Maddie says, «Make new friends, you dafty, I have!» Lily lets Priya in. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/13/) — A new friend doesn't betray an old one. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/15/) — Connor looks both up: a toque is a woolly hat, a double-double is coffee with two creams and two sugars. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/16/) — They game together online on Fridays, with their parents' OK. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/17/) — Not every friendship survives a move. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/18/) — Jake's best friend Ryan moves across town and changes school. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/20/) — They meet twice, then stop. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/21/) — A year later they bump into each other in town and chat happily for ten minutes. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/22/) — Nobody did anything wrong; it's just harder without seeing each other every day. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/23/) — Sam's friend Ade goes to Nigeria for a year and they write real letters. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/24/) — Ade's reply takes two months and has a stamp with a bird on it. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/25/) — Mia, who moved from Georgia to Ohio, now gets told she says «y'all» funny in both places. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/26/) — Moving away is one of the hardest things for a friendship, and it is normal to feel very sad. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/27/) — Making a plan together, like a regular call, helps a long-distance friendship. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/28/) — Time zones mean it can be a different time of day in another country; Australia is many hours ahead of Britain. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/29/) — Friends who move will build new lives, so being flexible about calls works better than sulking. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/30/) — Making a new friend does not betray an old one; you can have both. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/31/) — Some friendships fade after a move even when nobody did anything wrong, and you can still be glad of them. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/32/) — Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/33/) — Playing online with faraway friends should be done with your parents' agreement. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/34/) — Goodbyes often show how people really feel, even people who teased you. - ← previous: [Sleepovers and inside jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) - next →: [Growing apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)