--- title: Covering up, false alarms and playing fair — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of so --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/) [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/) / Covering up, false alarms and playing… # Covering up, false alarms and playing fair Lesson 277 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/0/) — People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/1/) — Usually there is an honest way that works better. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/2/) — Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover harm they did. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/3/) — Saying «I don't understand» is honest and brave, and «Thanks, but I can't come» is a polite no that needs no made-up excuse. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/4/) — Some lies are dangerous: pretending to be hurt, lying to a doctor, or making a fake emergency call. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/6/) — Games work only when players are honest: the banker handles the money fairly, a tagged player becomes «it», and a footballer does not fake a fall. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/7/) — Trust is earned by what people do over time, not by how often they say «trust me». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/8/) — Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/10/) — Pretending to understand means you miss the help you need. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/11/) — There are honest, polite ways to say no to an invitation, like «Thanks, but I can't come», so you rarely need to invent an excuse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/12/) — False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/13/) — Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need true facts to treat you, and they are there to help, not to punish. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/14/) — Never prank call an emergency number (911, 999, 112, 000 or 111); it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/15/) — Judge people by what they do over time, not by how often they say «trust me». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/17/) — Faking a fall in football, called diving, is cheating and can earn a yellow card. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/18/) — A boy in Leeds told the teacher his friend had been with him when the friend had really been bullying a younger child; the bullying went on for weeks and both boys ended up in serious trouble. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/19/) — A girl in Arizona kept pretending to faint for attention; when she really did fall and hurt her wrist, other children thought it was a joke and nobody fetched help for a while. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/20/) — Every prank call to an emergency number takes a call taker away from someone who may be in real danger. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/21/) — People who cry wolf too often are not believed when they really need help. - ← previous: [Money in town and staying safe in crowds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/) - next →: [Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)