--- title: The forged signature and how it always ends — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The forged signature and how it always ends», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jack in Liverpool got a note home about a fight in the yard. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/) [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/) / The forged signature and how it always… # The forged signature and how it always ends Lesson 429 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 32 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/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/0/) — Jack in Liverpool got a note home about a fight in the yard. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/1/) — Scared of what Mum would say, he signed it himself with her name and handed it in. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/2/) — His teacher took one look and rang his mum. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/3/) — Now there were two problems: the fight AND the fake signature. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/4/) — Jack was grounded for two weeks, lost his phone, and for the rest of the year the school checked every note he brought. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/5/) — Signing someone else's name to fool people is called forgery, and it is a serious kind of lie, because the paper says a grown-up agreed when they didn't. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/7/) — Arjun in Mumbai wrote his own permission slip for a trip his parents had said no to; on the morning of the trip the teacher phoned home about pick-up time, and he was taken off the bus in front of everyone. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/8/) — Ryan's mate in Brisbane bragged «done it heaps», until the school found one forged note and then found them all, and he was suspended (kept off school) for a day. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/9/) — Other kids hide or change papers instead. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/11/) — Sophie changed «needs improvement» on her report to «needs no improvement»; her dad, a teacher himself, laughed out loud, then stopped laughing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/12/) — Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked days she hadn't read; her reading level stayed still, she owned up, and breaking Mum's trust hurt more than any punishment. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/13/) — Often the paper hides a smaller, real problem. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/14/) — Ollie in Belfast forged a sick note to skip swimming because he was scared of the deep end. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/15/) — That night his PE teacher met his mum at the shops. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/16/) — Mum was cross about the note, but sad he hadn't told her he was scared — and the teacher let him start in the shallow end. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/18/) — After hearing the story, one girl admitted she had signed a note herself, and Ms Rivera helped her tell her mum. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/19/) — Kayla in Atlanta found a form about her missing homework that needed Mom's signature by Friday. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/20/) — She thought about signing it herself for a whole evening. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/21/) — Then she put it on the kitchen table and went to bed. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/22/) — Mom signed it, sighed, and they made a homework plan. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/24/) — Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/25/) — A forged signature on a school note is a serious lie, because it pretends a parent agreed. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/26/) — Schools often check notes by phoning or emailing parents, so a faked note is usually found. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/27/) — Once one forged note is found, a school can go back and check all the others. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/28/) — Forging a note turns one problem into two: the thing in the note and the forgery. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/29/) — Hiding a signed paper or test does not stop the school, which can email parents directly. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/30/) — Changing the words on a report is faking an official paper and is taken very seriously. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/31/) — When someone trusts you to tick or sign for yourself, using it to lie breaks that trust. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/32/) — A bad mark is information that shows what to practise; hiding it blocks help. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/33/) — A forged note often hides a smaller real problem, like fear, that has an easy fix. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/34/) — If you have already faked a paper, telling a trusted grown-up now is better than waiting for it to be found. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/35/) — The hardest part of handing in a bad note is putting it on the table; after that it is just a talk. - ← previous: [The broken window and other hidden accidents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/) - next →: [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)