--- title: Lies that do real harm — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Lies that do real harm», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Lies that do real harm # Lies that do real harm Lesson 197 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/197-harmful-lies/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/0/) — Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/1/) — Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/2/) — Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/3/) — Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults from helping. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/5/) — When a real wolf comes, nobody believes him. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/6/) — False alarms make it harder to be believed when it truly matters. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/7/) — If you have told a harmful lie, the bravest and best thing is to tell the truth quickly, before the harm grows. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/8/) — Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get punished and they lose trust in you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/9/) — Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove; a false accusation can damage a person's name for a long time. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/10/) — Lying to get someone else in trouble is a serious wrong, and if you did it, telling the truth quickly is the way to fix it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/11/) — False alarms make it harder for you to be believed when you really need help. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/12/) — Doctors and nurses need true facts to treat you properly, and they are there to help, not to punish. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/13/) — Parents and teachers can only help with problems they know about. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/14/) — Your parents or carers need to know where you are and who you are with, so they can find you if something goes wrong. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/15/) — Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children from content and contacts that are not safe. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/16/) — Never joke about swallowing pills or being hurt; if it is true, tell an adult at once. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/17/) — Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/18/) — A boy in Ohio lied that a classmate had stolen his money; the classmate was punished for weeks before the truth came out, and the boy lost his friends' trust. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/19/) — A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/21/) — Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people and can get you into serious trouble. - ← previous: [White lies and kind silence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)