--- title: Cheating in games and sports — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Cheating in games and sports», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Games only work if everyone plays by the rules. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/) [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/) / Cheating in games and sports # Cheating in games and sports Lesson 341 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/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/0/) — Games only work if everyone plays by the rules. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/1/) — Ben in Austin pressed the reset button every time he was losing a video game with his friend Luis. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/3/) — For two weeks Luis didn't want to play with him. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/5/) — Losing well keeps your friends. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/6/) — Not every cheat is seen. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/7/) — Ben pretended to have a sore leg so he wouldn't come last on sports day. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/8/) — He sat and watched, bored and guilty, while his team ran one runner short. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/9/) — That evening he told his teacher the truth, and in the next race he ran — and came fifth, not last, and felt proud, and his team trusted him again. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/10/) — Some cheats are quiet: a timer that ran for five minutes written down as twenty, a score changed on the class quiz, numbers skipped in hide and seek. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/11/) — They are usually found out by small things — a different pen colour, not knowing the story, everyone still running when you open your eyes. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/12/) — Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game, stop trusting you, and you have not got any better at anything. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/13/) — Games only work and stay fun when everyone follows the same rules. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/14/) — Cheating to win usually ends the game, because others stop wanting to play. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/15/) — Losing well, by finishing the game and shaking hands, keeps friends. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/16/) — Faking an injury to avoid a race lets your team down and leaves you feeling guilty. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/17/) — Coming last after trying is better than not trying at all. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/18/) — Writing down reading time you didn't do doesn't make you read. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/19/) — Changing a score doesn't change what you know. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/20/) — Peeking under the blindfold in blind man's buff is soon seen, and then the others won't let you be «it» any more. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/22/) — Getting a friend to whisper answers can cost the whole team points. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/23/) — The fix for cheating in a game is to say sorry and play again fairly. - ← previous: [Copying and peeking in tests](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/) - next →: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)