--- title: Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: So you read the address carefully, letter by letter. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/) [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/) / Fake websites, fake news and bots, ski… # Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted Lesson 335 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 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/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/1/) — So you read the address carefully, letter by letter. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/3/) — Read beyond the headline and check other sources. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/4/) — Some sites, like The Onion, write satire: made-up news as a joke. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/5/) — And some accounts are bots or fake accounts that post the same message again and again to make an idea look more popular than it is. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/6/) — If a friend pressures you to skip a lesson, stay in class: skipping gets you in trouble and worries the school staff, who must always know where you are. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/7/) — Some secrets are happy ones: if you find out about a Christmas present, you keep quiet and act surprised, so the giver keeps their joy. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/8/) — Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild: after a lie, telling the truth again and again slowly wins it back, and behaving well when the teacher is out of the room is what makes you trustworthy. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/9/) — Fake websites copy real ones with tiny spelling changes in the address, like «amaz0n» instead of «amazon». - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/10/) — Check a website's address carefully before typing anything into it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/11/) — Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond the headline. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/12/) — Checking whether other trusted sources report the same story helps you spot fake news. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/13/) — Satire is made-up news written as a joke; it is not lying when readers know it is a joke, but it can fool people who don't. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/14/) — Some accounts are bots or fake accounts that repeat the same message to make an idea look more popular than it is. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/15/) — If a friend pressures you to skip a lesson, stay in class; skipping gets you in trouble and worries school staff, who must know where you are. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/16/) — If you find out about a surprise present, keep quiet and act surprised; spoiling it takes the joy from the giver. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/17/) — Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/18/) — After a lie, keep telling the truth, and trust will grow back slowly. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/19/) — Being good when no one is watching is what makes you trustworthy. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/20/) — A man in Ireland typed his bank details into a website with one letter wrong in the address; the money in his account was taken within hours. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/21/) — A boy in Texas skipped a lesson because a friend pushed him to; nobody knew where he was, the school called his mum, and she left work frightened. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/22/) — Fake websites steal passwords and money every day, often using an address only one letter different from the real one. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/23/) — When a child skips a lesson, the school must treat it as a missing child until they know the child is safe. - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Little lies at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)