--- title: Playing fair and cheating in games — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Playing fair and cheating in games», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Cheating, like peeking in hide-and-seek, moving extra squares or changing the rules halfway because you are losing, spoils the game fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/) [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/) / Playing fair and cheating in games # Playing fair and cheating in games Lesson 200 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 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/200-cheating-in-games/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/1/) — Cheating, like peeking in hide-and-seek, moving extra squares or changing the rules halfway because you are losing, spoils the game for everyone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/2/) — Games rely on honesty: when you are tagged, you are «it», and when you are trusted with the bank in Monopoly, handling it honestly is a real test of character. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/3/) — If someone else cheats, a calm, kind remark like «I think you went one too many, let's count again» keeps the game fair without starting a fight. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/4/) — Not everything is cheating. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/5/) — Letting a small child win sometimes is kindness. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/6/) — A cheat code in a game only you play harms nobody, but showing off those scores as real would be a lie. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/7/) — Online hacks are different: they are unfair to other players, break the rules and often hide viruses. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/8/) — Example: a footballer in a Liverpool youth team falls over on purpose to win a free kick. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/9/) — That is called diving; it is cheating and can earn a yellow card. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/10/) — A game is only fun when everyone plays by the same rules. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/11/) — Agree on the rules before the game starts and stick to them; changing rules to win is cheating. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/12/) — Pointing out a mistake calmly keeps a game fair without starting a fight. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/13/) — Being trusted with the money or the score in a game is a test of honesty. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/14/) — Games rely on players being honest about what happened, like being tagged. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/15/) — Cheat codes in a game only you play harm nobody, but claiming those scores as real is lying. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/16/) — Hacks and cheat programs in online games are unfair, can get your account banned and often hide viruses. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/17/) — Everyone loses sometimes, and good losers are people others want to play with. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/18/) — Letting a small child win sometimes is kind, not cheating. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/19/) — Faking a foul in sport (diving) is cheating and can get a yellow card. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/20/) — Owning up when the referee missed something shows fair play, which people respect. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/21/) — A boy in Leeds cheated in a class game by peeking; when the others found out, nobody wanted him on their team for weeks. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/22/) — A girl in Ohio downloaded a cheat for an online game from a site that promised free gems; it put a virus on the family computer and her account was banned. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/23/) — Cheat downloads and "free" game hacks often carry viruses or steal accounts. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/24/) — People who cheat in games often get left out, because others do not trust them. - ← previous: [Promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/) - next →: [Honest work at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)