How best friends start Lesson 461 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 31 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 Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag. 2 Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary. 3 Lily asks if they'll still be friends when they're old. 5 «We'll be the two old ladies at bingo.» Big friendships often start with something tiny. 6 Sam and Jake became mates when Jake laughed at Sam's joke about the dinner lady's gravy («it's not gravy, it's a brown lake»). 7 Nobody else got it. 9 Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in defence, and they spent the whole match chatting about Minecraft. 10 They stayed on the team two years, still terrible, still laughing. 11 Chloe tried to buy friends. 12 She bought sweets for the popular girls every day for a week. 13 When the money ran out, so did they. 14 She ended up sitting with Aisha, who shared her crisps for nothing, and they became proper friends. 15 Mia's new classmate Zoe is from Texas. 16 On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». 17 Mia didn't think anyone would ask her that fast. 18 One brave invite started it all. 19 Best friends don't have to do everything together. 20 Sam wants chess club; Jake says chess is «mid» — Gen Z for boring, nothing special. 21 They argue, then Sam goes to chess and Jake to football, and they still sit together at lunch. 22 When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face drops; so the three of them make friendship bracelets instead. 24 And some best mates are family: Sam and his cousin Ollie build a top-secret den in Grandad's garden every holiday, and Grandad pretends not to know who built it. 26 Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin. 27 You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more. 28 You can't buy friends: if the friendship stops when the gifts stop, it wasn't friendship. 29 Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks. 30 Best friends can like different things and do different hobbies and still be close. 31 Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. 33 Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years. 34 Cousins, brothers and sisters can be best friends too. 35 Judge a friend by how they treat you, not only by what others say about them. 36 «Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or quietly, «ngl» means «not gonna lie», and «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». ← previous The pet that loves you mostnext → Sleepovers and inside jokes↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/