--- title: Spending money online without asking — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Spending money online without asking», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Aiden in Phoenix bought gems in his favourite game with Mum's saved card, a few dollars at a time, so he could beat his friend. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/) [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/) / Spending money online without asking # Spending money online without asking Lesson 362 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/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/0/) — Aiden in Phoenix bought gems in his favourite game with Mum's saved card, a few dollars at a time, so he could beat his friend. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/1/) — Each tap felt like nothing. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/2/) — At the end of the month Mum saw over forty dollars gone from her bank account and sat down at the kitchen table very quietly. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/3/) — Aiden owned up. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/4/) — He said sorry and did extra jobs for weeks to pay it back, and the card was removed from the game. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/5/) — Sophie said she was thirteen so she could join an app her friends used. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/6/) — She saw videos that scared her and could not stop thinking about them at night. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/7/) — When Mum found out, she deleted the app — and instead of shouting, she sat with Sophie and talked about what she had seen. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/8/) — Sophie felt better once she had told. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/9/) — In-app money is real money: gems, coins and skins are paid for from a real bank account. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/10/) — Age rules on apps exist to keep children away from things that can upset or harm them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/11/) — Behind every screen is a real person — the classmate in the chat, the friend in the photo, the person who made the video. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/12/) — Online words and pictures can hurt just as much as spoken ones, and they can spread and stay. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/13/) — Money spent in games and apps comes from a real bank account. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/14/) — Many apps and social networks require users to be at least 13 years old. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/15/) — If you see something online that scares or upsets you, tell a trusted adult. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/16/) — Mean messages in a group chat can hurt as much as mean words in the playground. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/17/) — Sharing a photo of someone without asking can embarrass them, and it can spread beyond your control. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/18/) — Pop-ups saying you have won a prize are usually tricks to get information or install harmful software, such as a virus that damages the computer. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/19/) — Never tell someone you have only met online where you live or go to school. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/20/) — Screens late at night make it harder to fall asleep and leave you tired the next day. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/21/) — Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when they need it, so they may miss an important call. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/22/) — Owning up quickly about online mistakes lets adults fix them faster. - ← previous: [Spoiling and losing things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/) - next →: [Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)