--- title: Friends through games and clubs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Friends through games and clubs», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows with a partner, Grace-from-Brownies (not Grace-from-school). --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/) [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/) / Friends through games and clubs # Friends through games and clubs Lesson 467 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 37 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/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/1/) — First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows with a partner, Grace-from-Brownies (not Grace-from-school). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/2/) — Their tower is the worst in the hall. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/3/) — It collapses onto the leader's shoe. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/4/) — They laugh so much they get told off. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/5/) — That's what clubs do: they give strangers something to do together, and the friendship grows out of the doing. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/6/) — «Join something you love,» Lily's mum says, «and you'll find people who love it too.» Lily rolls her eyes, signs up for the museum dinosaur club, and finds three kids who argue passionately about whether T. rex had feathers. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/7/) — Mia starts a Pokémon card club at lunch with a sign she drew herself. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/8/) — Five kids come, including Eli, a boy nobody ever talks to. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/10/) — Everyone starts asking him; he smiles more in a week than all year. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/11/) — At the chess tournament Dev from another school beats Sam on time in the final. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/12/) — In the corridor Dev says, «That was mad close. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/13/) — Wanna play online sometime?» With their dads' OK they play every week. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/14/) — A year later the rematch is a draw, and they high-five over the board. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/15/) — Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to batter him. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/17/) — The coach has one rule: «What happens in the ring stays in the ring. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/18/) — Fight outside and you're out.» Jake gets into fewer fights at school, not more. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/19/) — Chloe's first drama club, a girl with a ponytail says loudly «Ugh, newbie» and rolls her eyes. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/20/) — Chloe nearly walks out — but stays, gets cast as a talking toilet in the panto and makes the whole club cry laughing. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/21/) — Next week the ponytail girl asks her to sit with her. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/22/) — Connor plays Fortnite every week with his cousin's mates — loud and funny on voice chat. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/23/) — At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to say; they stand round the trampoline staring at their trainers until someone mentions the new map, and everyone talks at once. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/24/) — On Kieran's school Minecraft server they build a whole city with a giant statue of their teacher. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/26/) — They nearly fall out over who builds the tallest tower, so they vote; Kieran loses and builds the best bridge instead. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/27/) — At football camp Connor is paired with Mateo, who only speaks Spanish. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/28/) — They pass for an hour; by Friday they swap «gracias» and «cheers, mate». - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/29/) — In Perth Maddie's netball team chants «GEOR-DIE!» when she scores — a nickname that's a hug in words. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/30/) — Clubs and teams give people something to do together, and friendships often grow from that. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/31/) — Joining something you love is a good way to find people who love the same thing. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/32/) — Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet children who are rarely asked. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/33/) — Rivals in a game can become friends; shake hands whoever wins. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/34/) — Good sports clubs teach respect and have rules against fighting outside the sport. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/35/) — Don't let one unkind person make you quit something you enjoy. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/36/) — Shared games need shared rules: voting and taking turns settle most arguments. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/37/) — People you only know online can feel like strangers face to face at first; start with what you share. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/38/) — Play online only with people your family knows about, and with your parents' permission. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/39/) — Games and sport can make friends across languages, even with only a few words in common. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/40/) — A friendly team nickname can welcome someone in, as long as it is kind. - ← previous: [Joining a game, and the shy kid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/) - next →: [Nice alone, mean in a group](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)