--- title: Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: People usually lie for a reason that feels good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/) [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/) / Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat… # Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks Lesson 312 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/0/) — People usually lie for a reason that feels 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/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/1/) — Almost always there is an honest way that works better. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/2/) — Loyalty means being kind to a friend, not covering up harm they did. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/4/) — Some lies are dangerous. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/6/) — Doctors and emergency services can only help when they get the truth, and a prank call to an emergency number can delay help for someone who is really in danger. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/7/) — Honesty is tested in small things too: being the banker in a game, admitting you were tagged, not faking a fall, and telling a teacher when a mistake gave you extra marks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/8/) — Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; you can stay kind to a friend without covering up harm. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/9/) — Covering up for someone can let the harm continue and drags you into the trouble too. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/11/) — Pretending to understand a lesson means you miss the help you need. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/13/) — False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/14/) — 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. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/15/) — Never prank call an emergency number (911, 999, 112, 000 or 111); it ties up help that someone in a real emergency needs, and it is against the law. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/16/) — Being trusted with the money in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/17/) — Games rely on players being honest about what happened, so a tagged player admits it and becomes «it». - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/18/) — Faking a fall in football to win a free kick is called diving; it is cheating and can earn a yellow card. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/19/) — If a teacher adds up your marks wrongly in your favour, telling them shows real integrity. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/20/) — Copying in a test is cheating, and it hides from the teacher what you still need to learn; if you did it, tell the teacher. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/21/) — A girl in Dublin told the nurse she had fallen off a bike when she had really swallowed a button battery; the right treatment was delayed and the battery burned her throat. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/22/) — A boy in Texas lied to cover for a friend who had started a small fire behind the school; the fire spread to a shed, and both boys were in serious trouble. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/23/) — Doctors and nurses choose treatment from what they are told, so a lie can lead to the wrong treatment. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/24/) — A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours and needs hospital at once. - ← previous: [Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/) - next →: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)