--- title: Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A good prank leaves everyone laughing, including the one it was played on. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/) [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/) / Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, h… # Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers Lesson 334 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 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/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/0/) — A good prank leaves everyone laughing, including the one it was played on. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/1/) — A prank that damages things, like egging a house or stuffing a toilet, means someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/2/) — Animals never understand pranks: they just get frightened, stressed or hurt. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/3/) — On April 1st news websites and companies often publish joke stories; in 1957 the BBC famously showed spaghetti «growing on trees». - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/5/) — But nobody should ever pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/6/) — Adverts show a product at its very best, sometimes with special effects, which is why they say «pictures are for illustration». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/8/) — A brand of soda in a film is often product placement: the company paid for it to be there. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/9/) — A loot box, where you pay without knowing what you get, works like gambling. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/10/) — An offer that sounds too good to be true usually is: quick money for no work, famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website, or a stranger offering sweets or a puppy if you come with them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/11/) — Never go anywhere with someone you do not know; run to a safe adult and tell. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/12/) — Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/13/) — Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/14/) — On April Fools' Day, news and companies often publish joke stories, so check the date and think. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/15/) — Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/16/) — Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the real toy may be smaller or do less. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/17/) — «Pictures are for illustration» means the picture may not show exactly what you get. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/19/) — A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you get, and games make it exciting so you spend more. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/21/) — Real money takes real work, and «get rich quick» offers are almost always tricks. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/23/) — Offers of sweets or a puppy are a known trick to lure children; never go anywhere with someone you do not know. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/24/) — A teenager in Canada filmed himself hiding a fake spider in a friend's car; the friend panicked while driving and crashed into a fence. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/25/) — A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a video; it was a paid advert, and the gadget broke in a week. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/26/) — Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can cause real accidents. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/27/) — Influencers are often paid to praise things, so their praise is an advert, not a test; check for \#ad and read reviews from ordinary buyers. - ← previous: [Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/) - next →: [Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)