--- title: Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a bag of gossip, and the two of them laugh so loudly in the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/) [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/) / Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from… # Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work Lesson 482 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/0/) — Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a bag of gossip, and the two of them laugh so loudly in the kitchen that Lily hears it through her pillow. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/3/) — Mum keeps checking her phone. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/5/) — Mum laughs and cries. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/6/) — Grown-ups have best friends, fall out and make up, just like kids. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/7/) — Dad's mates come in all shapes. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/9/) — «Good lad, Steve. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/10/) — Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely). - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/11/) — Gary moans about everything, the boss, the weather, the referee, but when Dad's car breaks down at midnight, Gary drives forty minutes to fetch him. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/15/) — At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/16/) — Dad puts his burger down: «Out of order, Phil. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/17/) — Apologise or go home.» Phil goes home, rings a week later and says sorry to Mum properly. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/19/) — After the fourth time, Mum says no. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/20/) — Sharon stops ringing. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/21/) — Mum is sad for a day, then fine. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/22/) — Some friendships last a lifetime. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/23/) — Mia's grandma and Miss Opal from church have known each other sixty years. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/24/) — «Back in my day,» says Miss Opal. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/25/) — «Your day was my day, Opal.» Mum video calls her school friend in Melbourne every Sunday, in her dressing gown. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/26/) — Lily's dad and Pete fish for six hours and say about nine words: «Best day of my week, that.» And when Maddie's mum's friend Donna visits from Newcastle, they're soon talking pure Geordie: «Howay man, divvent be daft, that gadgie was mental» («come on, don't be silly, that bloke was mad»). - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/27/) — Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/28/) — Grown-ups need friends too, and many keep best friends for decades. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/29/) — Grown-ups fall out and make up as well; it can upset them as much as it upsets children. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/30/) — A friend can be fun and still have faults, like swearing or moaning; you don't have to copy their faults. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/32/) — Even an old friend should respect your family; standing up to a friend can be the right thing. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/33/) — A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; it is fine to stop giving. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/34/) — Friendships can last across the world if both people keep calling. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/36/) — Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you were young. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/37/) — Friendships last a lifetime when people keep showing up for each other. - ← previous: [Blocking, muting and walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/) - next →: [Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)