The row over a game Lesson 475 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 29 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 Sam and Jake are playing Mario Kart. 2 Controllers hit the sofa. 4 Two days of silence. 5 Then Jake turns up at the door with a packet of Monster Munch: «Rematch? 6 No shortcuts?» Sam is so relieved he laughs. 7 Most rows over games are about winning, not about the friend. 8 Some game rows hide another feeling. 10 Maddie says, «You did it on purpose, you're well jel» («jel» is short for jealous). 11 Lily admits she was annoyed Maddie's tower was better, and helps rebuild it, bigger. 12 Owning up to the real feeling fixes it faster than «it was an accident». 13 Rows get worse with hands and with phones. 14 Connor pushes Kieran off the trampoline in a row over turns, and Kieran bangs his elbow; Connor is sent home and apologises next day, red-faced, his mum behind him. 15 Raj rage-quits FIFA (leaves the game in a temper) when he's losing 5–0, and Connor messages «L + ratio», a meme way of saying «you lost and nobody's on your side». 16 Raj blocks him. 18 At Christmas Mia's cousin flips the Monopoly board across the room, so the aunties ban Monopoly at Christmas for good. 19 Chloe switches the dance game off mid-song when she's losing to Aisha, then later texts: «sorry, I was being a sore loser». 21 Some rows are tiny. 22 Jake and Kieran each swear they touched the lamppost first, and don't speak for a week, until Kieran's little sister says, «You both touched it at the same time, you eejits.» Lily and Maddie shout about whether tig-backs (tagging straight back the person who tagged you) are allowed, while the other kids wander off to play football. 23 Next time they write the rules down first. 25 Arguments over games usually come from wanting to win, not from hating the friend. 26 Cooling off first and coming back with something small, like a snack and a «rematch?», often mends a game row. 27 Saying the real feeling, such as «I was jealous», mends a row faster than pretending it was an accident. 28 Pushing someone during a row can really hurt them; walk away when you are angry. 29 A sore loser gets upset or angry about losing; everybody loses sometimes. 30 Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about. 31 Teasing someone after beating them online can turn a game into a real fall-out. 32 Blaming a teammate for a loss splits the team; teams win and lose together. 33 Very small rows can often be ended with a laugh. 34 If a friend's «joke» hurts, it is fair to tell them; a good friend listens. ← previous Feuds between familiesnext → The secret that got told↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/