Friends who get it Lesson 525 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 46 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 After the Father's Day joke, Corey sits alone at lunch, picking at his chips. 1 His mate Bilal plonks his tray down next to him. 2 He doesn't make a speech. 3 He just says, «My dad's a nightmare anyway, you're not missing much,» and nicks a chip. 4 Corey laughs for the first time that day. 5 Friends who get it don't need to fix anything. 6 They turn up, sit down, and make it normal. 8 She says it's like having two families.» Sienna-Rae's shoulders drop. 9 Knowing someone else is in the same boat helps. 10 Good friends say the good bits out loud. 12 Darius grins all evening. 13 Ffion's friend Megan says, «Mine split up too. 15 They laugh, and Ffion doesn't have to explain a thing. 17 He's alright now, he coaches our footy.» Jamal feels less ashamed. 18 Elijah's friend asks, «Can I come over? 19 Your dads are so chill.» «Sure.» Aziza's friend Chloe says, «Your mum's scarf is so pretty, that colour's lush.» Aziza smiles. 20 Some help is quiet. 21 Holly-Mae's friend Jodie brings a jumper in a carrier bag. 22 «Me mam said you can have it, it's too small for us.» No fuss, no audience. 25 «Cheers, pal.» Liam-Jay doesn't need it that week, but he knows where to go. 26 Kwesi's friend Tom invites him round for tea every Friday. 27 «That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home with a tub of her jollof rice. 28 Some friends just see your family the way you do. 29 Minnie's friend Ava says, «That's so cool, you've got two families.» «Yeah, kinda,» says Minnie, which is exactly right. 30 Not every day is happy, and friends who get it don't pretend it is. 31 And then there's Shay, who lives in a children's home. 32 His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my party? 33 Is there, like, a form or somethin'?» Bríd laughs. 35 Niall didn't make it weird. 37 Think back over all these families: one mum, two dads, Nana, Aunt Denise, foster mums, a key worker called Bríd, a dad in Dubai, a mam in prison, a mum who died and a dad who never calls. 38 Every one of them is a real family, because a family is the people who look after you and love you, whatever shape they make. 39 Some stories end happily, some don't, and most are still going. 40 What every child needs from the people around them is the same: respect, a seat at lunch, and nobody making it weird. 41 Be the Bilal. 42 Friends who get it don't need to fix things; just being there helps. 43 Knowing someone in a similar situation helps a child feel less alone. 44 Saying good things about a friend's family makes them proud. 45 Lots of children have separated parents, a relative in prison, or a family that looks different. 46 Quiet help, without an audience, protects a friend's pride. 47 Knowing a safe place to go, like a friend's house with a parent's okay, helps a child feel safe. 48 Sharing what you can, like tea on Fridays, is part of being a good friend. 49 Seeing adoption or foster care as normal, or even cool, helps a friend. 50 Children in care sometimes need a permission form for parties and sleepovers; it's a small thing, and friends shouldn't make it weird. 51 A family is the people who look after you and love you, whatever shape it has. 52 Every family deserves respect, and not every family story has a happy ending. 53 «No cap» means no lie, «lush» is Welsh for lovely, «inside» can mean in prison, «ta» means thanks, «tae» is Scots for to, «bussin'» means really good, and «buzzing» means thrilled. ← previous «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/