--- title: Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A test is not a race against the teacher; it shows what you know so the teacher can help with what you don't. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-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/) / Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pran… # Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm Lesson 278 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 25 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/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/0/) — A test is not a race against the teacher; it shows what you know so the teacher can help with what you don't. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/1/) — Copying, forging a parent's signature or keeping a mark you did not earn all hide the truth that the test is meant to find. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/2/) — Jokes are for sharing a laugh. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/3/) — Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and help him learn words. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/4/) — But some words are never jokes: bombs, weapons and threats at airports or schools must be treated seriously by staff, and can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/7/) — A prank stops being funny when someone pays for it: damaged property, a frightened pet, a scared neighbour, or a friend who cannot go home. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/8/) — Example: a boy hides his friend's shoes as a joke, the friend misses the bus and his mum is worried sick. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/9/) — The «joke» is only funny to one person. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/10/) — In a test, keep your eyes on your own paper; the test finds out what you know so the teacher can help you. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/11/) — Never sign a note or reading log for a parent; forging a signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/12/) — If a teacher adds up your mark wrongly in your favour, tell them; honesty about mistakes that help you shows real integrity, which means being honest even when nobody would find out. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/13/) — Playing along with a younger child's silly jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/14/) — Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats, especially at airports or schools; staff must treat such words seriously. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/15/) — Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/16/) — If an older sibling teases you constantly, tell them how it makes you feel, and ask a parent for help if it continues. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/17/) — Everyone can like what they like; teasing about interests makes people hide what they enjoy. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/18/) — Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/19/) — Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/20/) — Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/21/) — Do not hide things people need, like shoes or a bag; they could be late, get in trouble or be really worried. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/22/) — Saying or writing that two people love each other, faking a love note, or passing on rumours about someone's private life can embarrass and hurt them, so it is not a harmless joke. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/23/) — A boy in Canada joked online that he would bring a gun to school; the police came to his home, the school was locked down, and he was suspended even though he never meant it. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/24/) — A girl in Wales signed her mum's name on a school form; when the school found out, she lost a school trip and it took a long time for her mum to trust her again. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/25/) — Threats about weapons or bombs are always taken seriously by schools and police, even when the child says it was a joke. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/26/) — Copying in a test hides what you do not know, so the gaps grow and the work gets harder later. - ← previous: [Covering up, false alarms and playing fair](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)