Family game night Lesson 425 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 .
0 The whole of Mia's family played a racing game on Saturday, and everyone was sure Grandad would come last: he held the controller upside down for the first lap. 1 Then he won. 2 It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work». 3 Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for no reason». 4 Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once. 5 Theo's mum has been the family champion at a board game for six years. 6 Theo has lost about two hundred times. 7 Last Friday he finally won, jumped onto the sofa, and then saw his mum's face, and for one second worried she was upset. 8 She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good. 9 Noah's dad plays a quiz game as if he knows everything. 10 He told everyone with great confidence that a spider has six legs. 11 The family has not let him forget it. 12 In Ruby's house it is the dance game. 13 Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling down the stairs, but he kept going, laughing louder every round, and Ruby laughed so much she could not dance either. 14 Jayden's grandma brought an old card game from when she was a girl, and beat the whole family at it, including Jayden's uncle, who «doesn't lose at cards». 15 Zara's family plays Minecraft together on one big screen, and her little brother mainly builds toilets. 16 Some families pick games where nobody loses alone. 17 Ollie's family plays cooperative games, where everyone works together against the game, and wins or loses together, so nobody sulks. 18 Leo's family plays on mixed teams, grown-ups and kids together, so the kids are not always beaten by the grown-ups, and the grown-ups have to explain things nicely. 19 Kai's family plays a party game every Friday, and the best part, Kai says, is not the game: it is the hour when nobody is in a hurry. 20 Family game nights are a way to spend time together and laugh, not only to win. 21 Older people can surprise you, because they bring skills and experience from their whole lives. 22 A win feels real and earned when the other player did not let you win. 23 A good winner is happy without rubbing it in, and a good loser congratulates the winner. 24 In cooperative games the players work together against the game and win or lose as a team. 25 Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make people explain things kindly. 26 Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention to each other. 27 Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part of the evening. 28 A spider has eight legs, and an insect has six. 29 Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun to play today. ← previous Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft buildingnext → «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/