--- title: Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when one player on the other side started winning every fight in ab --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/) [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/) / Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» # Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» Lesson 408 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 36 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/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/0/) — Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when one player on the other side started winning every fight in about two seconds. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/1/) — His account was brand new, but he played like someone with three thousand hours. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/2/) — Priya's cousin explained: a very good player had made a fresh account to crush beginners. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/3/) — That is called smurfing. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/4/) — Priya's team reported him. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/5/) — Zara lost to the same kind of player and decided she was terrible at the game, until Priya said: «You lost to someone with three thousand hours. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/6/) — That's like losing a race to a cheetah.» - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/7/) — Theo was tempted to make a second account himself. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/8/) — Then he imagined playing football against the Reception class, scoring forty goals, and walking off feeling like a champion. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/9/) — He laughed out loud, because he would feel like a giant wally. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/10/) — A win you know is unfair does not feel like a win. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/11/) — Leo's friend sent him a link: «HACK!!! - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/12/) — INFINITE COINS!!!» Leo's finger hovered. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/13/) — His dad said that links like that often carry viruses or steal your account, and the «infinite coins» are the bait on the hook. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/14/) — Leo did not click. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/15/) — Ruby's cousin had not been so lucky: he used a cheat, his account was banned, and two years of skins and progress vanished in one afternoon. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/16/) — Not every brilliant player is a cheater, though. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/17/) — Ollie said «he must be hacking» about everyone who beat him, until Mia showed him a video of one of those players practising the same jump two hundred times. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/19/) — When Jayden found a glitch that let him win every time, he wondered whether it counted as cheating. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/20/) — His team agreed: if you have to wonder, it probably is. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/21/) — They left it alone and reported it to the game makers, who fixed it a week later. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/22/) — Other friends met other temptations. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/23/) — Mia's friend offered to «boost» her rank: «Gimme your login and I'll get you to diamond tonight.» Mia said no: it would not be her rank, and she would have to share her password. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/24/) — In Kai's game a player kept flying through walls, which no honest player can do. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/25/) — Kai's squad reported him, and a few days later he was banned. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/26/) — Smurfing means a strong player using a new account to play against beginners. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/27/) — Hacks and cheats are programs or tricks that break a game's rules to win. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/28/) — Links that promise free coins or hacks often carry viruses or steal accounts. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/29/) — Players caught cheating can have their accounts banned and lose everything on them. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/30/) — Games have a report button for cheaters and smurfs, and reports are checked. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/31/) — Many players who seem impossibly good have simply practised for a very long time. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/32/) — A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfair to others. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/33/) — Game makers want glitches reported so they can fix them. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/34/) — Letting someone else play on your account means sharing your password, which is unsafe. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/35/) — Losing to a much stronger player does not mean you are bad at the game. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/36/) — Real skill comes from practice, not from secret codes. - ← previous: [Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/) - next →: [Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)