--- title: Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A good joke makes everyone laugh, including the person it is about. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) [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/) / Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts Lesson 313 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/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/0/) — A good joke makes everyone laugh, including the person it is about. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/1/) — Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind; mocking someone's accent or home language is not. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/2/) — A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals, or makes people believe someone is hurt or in danger. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/3/) — On April 1st, newspapers, TV and companies often publish joke stories. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/4/) — In 1957 the BBC showed a famous report of spaghetti «growing on trees», and many people believed it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/5/) — Our eyes can be fooled too. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/6/) — In the Müller-Lyer illusion, two equal lines look different lengths because of the arrow ends; a ruler shows the truth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/7/) — Adverts are made to make you want things. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/8/) — They show toys at their very best, use famous people who are paid, hide products inside films, hurry you with countdowns, and use loot boxes that work like gambling. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/9/) — Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/10/) — Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind; stand up for them or stay with them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/11/) — Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/12/) — Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/13/) — Many news websites and companies publish joke stories on April Fools' Day, so check the date and think. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/14/) — Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/15/) — Our brain can be fooled by what surrounds a shape, so measuring gives the true answer. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/17/) — Influencers are often paid to praise products; look for \#ad, «sponsored» or «paid partnership». - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/18/) — A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will get. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/19/) — «Hurry, only today!» and countdowns rush you so you do not think clearly; real bargains rarely vanish in minutes. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/20/) — Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/21/) — A boy in England pulled a chair away as a joke when his friend sat down; the friend fell, hit his head on the floor and needed hospital. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/22/) — A girl in Ohio played a prank on her cat with a loud noise; the cat panicked, ran into the road and was hit by a car. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/23/) — Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke often end in head or back injuries. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/24/) — Animals do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/25/) — Teasing someone about who they like (a «crush», a person you secretly fancy) can embarrass and hurt; if teasing goes on after you clearly ask them to stop, tell a teacher. - ← previous: [Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/) - next →: [Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)