--- title: Telling when someone may be lying — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Everyday description: The 23 test and exam questions of lesson 198 «Telling when someone may be lying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / Telling when someone may be lying # Telling when someone may be lying The 23 questions of lesson 198 «Telling when someone may be lying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with their options, 123 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t1/) — A shy new girl in Wellington looks at the floor when she says she has a cat. What is the fair thought? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t2/) — Mia says she was at the beach on Saturday, then the cinema, then her gran's. What is a sensible reaction? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t3/) — A man on TV says a pill makes you taller in a week and swears it really works. What should you think? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t4/) — A boy is nervous in a polygraph test and the machine says «lying». Why might it be wrong? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t5/) — Two brothers in Cork each say the other started the argument. What is most likely? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t6/) — Your grandad remembers your birthday picnic happening in the rain; you remember sun. What is the best explanation? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t7/) — A classmate says «trust me» all the time but often does not do what he says. What does this tell you? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t8/) — A girl gets cross when asked where her homework is. What should the teacher remember? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t9/) — Which is the best clue that a story should be checked? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t10/) — he wont look at me so he's def lying, right? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t11/) — she swore cross my heart so it must be true — right ✓ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t12/) — me and my bro remember the trip totally different, one of us is lyin — right ✓ · ★★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t13/) — kid says he met a famous footballer at the shop, believe him? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t14/) — online guy selling a console for 20 quid, pay now or it's gone — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t15/) — stranger says ur mum's hurt, come with me now — right ✓ · ★★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t16/) — how can u tell someone might be lying to trick you — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t17/) — did u hear Sam never looks u in the eye, my sister says that proves he's lying about everything — right ✓ · ★★ - [t18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t18/) — apparently a man outside the school told Lucy her mum was in hospital n tried to get her in his car, they say he had a knife — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/t19/) — my mate swears "cross my heart" he saw a shark in the leisure centre pool, so it must be true innit — right ✓ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the evidence that a person is lying? — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/e2/) — Identify the features commonly displayed by a person who lies in order to trick you. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/e3/) — It is given that two honest persons remember the same event differently. Determine the most probable explanation. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/e4/) — Ascertain the step that most reliably defeats a trick based on a surprising story. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [197. Lies that do real harm](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/197-harmful-lies/) - next →: [199. Promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/199-promises/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/)