Teams and voice chat Lesson 405 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 .
0 Leo, Kai and Priya joined a Fortnite squad from three different houses, and for the first five minutes all three talked at once: «Where are we landing — no, LEFT — who's got shield — wait, I'm stuck in a bush.» They were knocked out before they'd found a single chest. 1 Next game Priya said, «One at a time. 2 Say where, then what.» «Enemy, blue house, two of them.» They lasted twice as long. 3 Then Ollie forgot his mic was on. 4 The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE! 5 I WILL NOT SAY IT AGAIN!» Followed by Ollie whispering, «Mum, I'm LIVE.» Kai laughed so much he fell off his beanbag. 6 Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby brother was asleep next door — and her whispered «there's one behind you» was somehow the scariest thing anyone heard all night. 8 «It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,» she explained, in the voice of someone explaining something obvious to a very old person. 9 He went back down to his tea, shaking his head. 10 Gaming talk sounds alarming to people who don't know it. 11 Teams go wrong in funny ways too. 12 Mia's squad kept losing because all four of them wanted to be the sniper and nobody wanted to heal anyone. 13 In Minecraft, Ruby built an entire castle with towers while Theo «helped» by digging holes, one of which Ruby fell into. 14 Jayden played Dota 2 with his older cousin, was handed a hero he barely knew, and spent the match apologising to four strangers on the team. 16 And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above who shouted orders like a general: «You, there! 17 Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun. 18 Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life and refuses to join random squads: «I don't know who they are, so no.» Good teams share jobs, take turns, talk clearly and kindly, and laugh at the tea moments. 19 A bossy captain isn't a good one, and you are allowed to leave a game that has stopped being fun. 20 When everyone talks at once on voice chat, nobody can understand anything. 21 Short, clear messages that say where and what help a team most. 22 A microphone left on can let everyone in the game hear what is happening in your home. 23 Most consoles and games let you mute your microphone and let parents limit voice chat to friends. 24 Playing only with people you know in real life is safer than joining strangers. 25 Game slang such as «push» and «one shot» can sound frightening to people who do not play. 26 A good team shares out jobs instead of everyone wanting the same one. 27 Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mistake can distract the team. 28 A good leader gives clear instructions politely and does not insult players. 29 You can leave a game or a group if someone is being nasty, and tell an adult if it keeps happening. ← previous Parents' rules for big gamesnext → Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/