--- title: Little lies at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Little lies at home», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/) [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/) / Little lies at home # Little lies at home Lesson 336 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 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/336-little-lies-at-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/0/) — Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/1/) — Mum saw the crumbs on his jumper, and he still said no. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/2/) — He lost his pudding, and Mum said it was more for the lie than for the biscuits. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/3/) — At bedtime he owned up and said sorry for lying to her face. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/4/) — A lie turns a small thing into a big one. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/5/) — Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes them wonder what else is not true. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/6/) — Sometimes nobody catches you, and that can be worse. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/7/) — Owen's ball knocked the vase over, and he said his little sister did it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/8/) — She was sent to her room crying. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/9/) — Nobody found out, but he could not look Mum in the eye at dinner and could not sleep. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/10/) — In the end he woke Mum and told her, and said sorry to his sister. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/11/) — On Saturday he went to confession at church: «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.» The priest listened, gave him absolution (forgiveness in God's name) and a small penance (a short prayer or task to show he is sorry), and he walked out feeling light, the weight gone. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/12/) — But the priest also said: the sorry to your sister is still yours to say, and you said it — good. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/13/) — Lies are easy to check (a dry toothbrush, a teacher asking about chapter five, a boy looking it up), and once you are caught in a small lie, people stop trusting your big truths too. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/14/) — Lying about a small thing usually gets a bigger consequence than the small thing itself. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/15/) — Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder for people to believe you. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/16/) — An excuse that is not true, like «the dog ate my homework», is a lie in a costume. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/17/) — Pretending to be sick does not make a fear go away; telling a grown-up what you are afraid of can. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/18/) — Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what you were asked. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/19/) — Letting someone else take the blame for your wrong hurts them and leaves a heavy secret in you. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/20/) — A guilty conscience, like not sleeping or not looking someone in the eye, is a sign that something needs putting right. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/21/) — Owning up yourself, before you are caught, usually makes the trouble smaller and the trust come back faster. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/22/) — Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/23/) — You do not need to make up stories to be interesting; your real life is enough. - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)