--- title: The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Connor has played every night for months with «xXShadowWolfXx», who is funny, gives tips and gifted him a skin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/) [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 friend in the game you never met,… # The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend Lesson 480 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 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/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/0/) — Connor has played every night for months with «xXShadowWolfXx», who is funny, gives tips and gifted him a skin (an outfit for your character). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/2/) — Connor tells his dad. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/3/) — His dad blocks and reports the account and turns on the privacy settings. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/4/) — Connor is gutted to lose his gaming mate, and a bit scared. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/5/) — ShadowWolf could have been anyone. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/6/) — A gift followed by a question about where you live is a warning sign. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/7/) — The biggest red flag is a secret from your parents. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/8/) — Mia's Roblox friend «Bella\_10» says she's ten and lives in Florida, then asks to video chat: «just us, don't tell ur mom, she'd be weird about it». - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/10/) — Your parents wouldn't get it.» A girl Mia met in a game says, «Run away and come live with me, I'll send a car.» Each time the child told a grown-up, the account was reported, and the police took the worst one seriously and thanked Mia. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/11/) — Safe people never ask you to keep secrets from your parents, or to meet up or get in a car. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/12/) — People online can pretend to be anyone. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/14/) — Jake leaves and tells his dad. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/16/) — Kieran tells his mum, and the police officer says he did exactly the right thing. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/18/) — Never heard of her.» Block and report. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/19/) — Some online friends are real. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/20/) — Lily's mum checks that «sketchy\_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/21/) — «It's pure dreich here,» the letters say, and Lily learns dreich is Scottish for grey and drizzly. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/22/) — Maddie in Perth plays Minecraft with her cousin Aoife in Galway: Aoife says «the craic was mighty» (Irish for great fun) and Maddie says «sweet as» (Aussie for great). - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/23/) — And when a stranger calls Connor «noob» and «trash» in voice chat, he mutes him and reports him after the match. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/24/) — Someone you only know online might not be who they say they are; people can lie about their name, age and where they live. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/25/) — Never give your address, school, phone number or photos to someone you only know online. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/26/) — A gift in a game followed by a request for personal details is a warning sign. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/27/) — Anyone online who asks you to keep secrets from your parents is not safe; tell a grown-up straight away. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/28/) — Anyone online who asks you to meet up, run away or get in a car is dangerous; tell a grown-up at once. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/29/) — Anyone online offering you things in exchange for a photo is not a friend; stop, don't reply, and tell an adult. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/30/) — Telling a grown-up is right even if the online person has been kind for a long time. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/31/) — Blocking stops someone contacting you; reporting tells the game or app so they can act. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/33/) — Playing online with people you already know in real life is the safest kind. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/34/) — Some online friends are real, but a parent should check before anything moves outside the game. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/35/) — You don't have to listen to strangers being rude in voice chat: mute and report. - ← previous: [The group chat that turns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/) - next →: [Blocking, muting and walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)