--- title: Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sometimes a child does not want to go to a party and says «I'm sick» when they are not. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/) [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/) / Saying no honestly, harmful lies, chea… # Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing Lesson 333 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/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/0/) — Sometimes a child does not want to go to a party and says «I'm sick» when they are not. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/2/) — Some lies cause real harm. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/3/) — In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», a shepherd boy shouts «Wolf!» as a joke again and again; when a real wolf comes, nobody believes him and nobody comes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/4/) — Lying to a doctor about how you got hurt, or prank calling an emergency number, can stop real help from reaching the person who needs it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/5/) — Games and tests only work when players are honest: the banker in Monopoly handles the money fairly, a tagged player admits it and becomes «it», a footballer does not fake a fall, and a pupil tells the teacher if a wrong sum gave them extra marks. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/6/) — Kind jokes, like knock-knock jokes with a younger brother or sister, build friendship. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/7/) — Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at home is unkind, and you can stand up for them or stay with them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/8/) — You do not owe everyone a reason for saying no, so you rarely need to invent one; «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/9/) — Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false alarms make it harder to be believed later. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/10/) — In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», when the boy really needed help nobody came, because he had lied before. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/11/) — 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. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/12/) — Never prank call 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help that someone in a real emergency needs, and it is against the law. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/13/) — Being the banker in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/14/) — Games rely on players being honest about what happened, so a tagged player admits it and becomes «it». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/15/) — Faking a fall in football to win a free kick is called diving; it is cheating and can earn a yellow card. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/16/) — Telling a teacher about a mistake that gave you a better mark shows real integrity. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/17/) — Sharing silly jokes, like knock-knock jokes, builds friendship and helps younger children learn language. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/18/) — Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/20/) — A boy in New York prank-called 911 for fun; the line was busy for a real emergency nearby, and police later came to his house. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/21/) — A girl in England kept faking injuries in football to win free kicks; when she was really hurt, the referee did not believe her at first. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/22/) — Prank calls to emergency numbers can delay help for someone who is really in danger. - ← previous: [Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds/) - next →: [Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)