--- title: Growing apart — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Growing apart», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Year 3 Sam and Jake did everything together: dens, conkers, the same rubbish joke about the dinner lady's gravy. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/) [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/) / Growing apart # Growing apart Lesson 464 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 38 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/464-growing-apart/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/0/) — In Year 3 Sam and Jake did everything together: dens, conkers, the same rubbish joke about the dinner lady's gravy. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/2/) — Now when Sam walks over, Jake looks at his shoes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/3/) — Sam stops walking over. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/5/) — Once, when nobody's looking, Jake does their old secret handshake in the corridor. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/7/) — Then he got into rugby and I got into computers. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/8/) — No fight, son. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/9/) — Haven't spoken in twenty years.» - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/10/) — Lily and Chloe used to spend every Saturday making slime. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/12/) — Lily is still dinosaur-mad. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/13/) — Their last sleepover ends with both of them on their phones in total silence. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/14/) — Nobody did anything wrong, and it still leaves a strange empty bit inside. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/15/) — Lily later finds a girl at museum club who can name every sauropod (the long-necked dinosaurs). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/16/) — Mia's best friend Ava starts going round with a crowd who say Mia's pony stickers are «cringe» and «giving baby» — Gen Alpha talk for «looks babyish». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/17/) — A week later Ava says it too, loudly, in front of them. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/18/) — Mia keeps her stickers. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/19/) — At riding lessons she meets Kenzie, who has a pony-shaped pencil case and zero shame, and by spring they're inseparable. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/20/) — Chloe sees a photo online of her old best friend Aisha at a party with girls Chloe doesn't know, all in matching sunglasses; she wasn't even told. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/21/) — «It's alright to feel left out, love,» says her mum. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/24/) — Drifting can be fixed, too, when there's a real problem to talk about. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/26/) — A week later, on the swings, they talk properly and make a deal: one of Maddie's mad ideas, then one of Lily's quiet ones, every weekend. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/28/) — Connor is nine and feels about forty. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/30/) — Kieran's fourteen-year-old brother says, «You'll have different mates every year till secondary, bro.» Kieran says no chance — him and Tom are for life. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/31/) — By Year 5, Tom is one of two mates he's swapped, though they still say hi in the corridor. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/32/) — Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2, gap-toothed, holding a frog. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/33/) — «Dead weird,» he says. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/34/) — His mum says, «You'll remember the good bits. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/35/) — That's what they're for.» - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/36/) — Friends sometimes grow apart because they start liking different things, and often nobody is to blame. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/37/) — Drifting apart can hurt even when there has been no fight. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/38/) — Friendships at primary school change a lot as children grow, and that is normal, not a failure. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/39/) — Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people who share what you love now usually does. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/40/) — You don't have to give up what you love to keep a friend; the right friends like you as you are. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/41/) — When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking about it calmly can fix it, while silence lets it drift. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/42/) — You can grow apart kindly, by suggesting new things together instead of dropping the person. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/43/) — Seeing photos of an old friend having fun without you can sting; reaching out or letting go both work better than staring at the photos. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/44/) — Drifted friends can still have good moments together and be friendly. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/45/) — Old friendships still count and are worth remembering, even when they are over. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/46/) — Grown-ups often lose touch with school friends too, without any fight. - ← previous: [The best friend who moves away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)