--- title: Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at one table, everyone has views, and the turkey i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s… # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends Lesson 15 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/0/) — Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at one table, everyone has views, and the turkey is getting cold. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/1/) — Grandma and Uncle can love each other and still vote differently. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/2/) — People see politics differently partly because they grew up in different times and lived different lives. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/3/) — Grandad's past and your cousin's future both matter, which is why they can look at the same news and see different things. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/4/) — There are good tricks for keeping the peace: change the subject ("Who wants pie?"), say the other side's best reason before you argue, correct a wrong fact kindly and in private, mute the group chat, or agree to disagree. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/5/) — Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I don't know yet" is an honest answer at any age. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/6/) — Families say it their own way: at a Pittsburgh dinner it is "yinz want more pie?" (yinz = you all), down South it is "y'all", in Sligo a cousin might call Uncle an "eejit" (a fool, said half in fun) and then the craic (fun) carries on, and in Liverpool "our kid" means your brother or sister. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/7/) — People who love each other can still vote differently, and big holidays often bring political arguments to the table. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/8/) — Polarisation is when people split into two sides that hardly talk to each other; common ground is what both sides agree on. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/9/) — Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said older and younger people often voted very differently, for example in the Brexit vote of 2016, when the UK voted on leaving the European Union. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/10/) — Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argument is over, only that dinner is not the time for it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/11/) — Kids often repeat what they hear at home; friends can stay friends even when their parents vote differently. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/12/) — Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/13/) — Children cannot vote yet, and being undecided is fine; people make up their minds by learning and listening over many years. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/14/) — A steelman means describing the other side's view in its strongest form; it helps you understand without making you agree. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/15/) — People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/16/) — People type things in group chats they would not say face to face; muting a chat is a way to take a break. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/17/) — Many couples and friends disagree about politics and still love each other; they agree to disagree. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/18/) — In a referendum everyone votes yes or no on one question, such as changing Ireland's constitution, the country's main set of rules. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/19/) — People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or keep them politics-free. - ← previous: [Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/) - next →: [US elections and the president, as reported](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)