--- title: Staying safe online and checking what you see — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Staying safe online and checking what you see», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Online, things are not always what they look like. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/) [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/) / Staying safe online and checking what… # Staying safe online and checking what you see Lesson 283 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/0/) — Online, things are not always what they look like. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/2/) — Pictures and videos can be fake too. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/3/) — Photos get edited, AI can make images with small mistakes like extra fingers or blurry writing, and deepfake videos can make famous people seem to say things they never said. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/5/) — A good checker asks: Who wrote this? - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/6/) — Where do the facts come from? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/7/) — What is the date? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/8/) — Do trusted news sources say the same? - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/9/) — Headlines in big capitals and posts saying «share this before it gets deleted!» are built to make you click and spread, not to make you think. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/10/) — Example: after a hurricane, a photo shows a shark swimming on a flooded highway in Houston. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/11/) — It looks real, but a reverse image search shows it was edited from an old picture. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/12/) — This exact fake has been shared after many storms. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/13/) — If you click a scam link, tell a parent straight away; you will not be in trouble for being honest, and changing passwords quickly can stop the damage. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/14/) — Ask a parent before allowing app permissions, and only allow what the app really needs; apps can collect and sell your information. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/15/) — Fake websites copy real ones with tiny spelling changes, so check the address carefully. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/16/) — Do not download paid games for free from unofficial sites; they often carry viruses or steal information. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/17/) — Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life, because strangers can pretend to be anyone. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/18/) — If you click a scam link by mistake, tell a parent at once; changing passwords quickly can stop the damage. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/19/) — Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be arrested» messages are scare scams. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/20/) — Headlines are written to make you click, so read beyond them and check other sources. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/21/) — «Share this before it gets deleted!» is a trick to make false stories spread fast. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/22/) — Edited and fake photos often spread after big events; an adult can help with a reverse image search. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/24/) — Videos and voices can be faked (deepfakes), so check trusted news sources. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/25/) — A fact can be checked and proved, like the Earth going around the Sun; an opinion is what someone thinks or likes, like which season is best. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/26/) — Check the date, because old stories are often reshared as if they just happened. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/28/) — Trust sites that say who wrote them and where their facts come from; scientists have shown in many ways, including photos from space, that the Earth is round. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/29/) — A boy in Canada downloaded a «free» copy of a paid game from a strange site; it put a virus on the family laptop and his dad's passwords were stolen. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/31/) — People online are not always who they say they are, and some adults pretend to be children to trick them. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/32/) — Free copies of paid games on unofficial sites often carry viruses that steal passwords. - ← previous: [Chain messages, lures and scam messages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/) - next →: [Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)