--- title: The friend with a PS6 — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The friend with a PS6», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ryan in Leeds told the class he had a PS6 — when no PS6 was on sale anywhere. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/) [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 friend with a PS6 # The friend with a PS6 Lesson 434 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/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/0/) — Ryan in Leeds told the class he had a PS6 — when no PS6 was on sale anywhere. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/1/) — «My dad works for Sony, innit, it's a secret test one.» A girl looked it up and announced there was no PS6. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/2/) — Ryan said his was «special». - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/3/) — Nobody believed a word he said for the rest of term. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/4/) — Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/5/) — Boasts often have a tell: the thing can never be seen. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/6/) — Tom's friend had «like five hundred» rare Pokémon cards — «in a safe, at the bank». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/8/) — Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/9/) — Fuzzy proof is not proof — but you can enjoy a story without needing to decide it is true. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/10/) — Some boasts crash into facts. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/11/) — Oliver «got to level 100 in one weekend» in a game that takes weeks; he said he was just goated — slang for «the greatest of all time» — then that his mum «deleted» his account. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/14/) — They cheered, and he felt better than after all the excuses. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/15/) — Kindness can save a friendship when a boast comes out. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/16/) — Chloe said her dad was a millionaire; when Mia came round to a normal flat with a cosy sofa, Chloe went red. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/17/) — Mia just said «Your flat's lush, I love your sofa» («lush» is Welsh and West Country slang for lovely), and Chloe stopped the millionaire story. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/18/) — They stayed friends. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/19/) — People often lie because they feel small. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/20/) — Lucy said she'd won a dance competition; a friend's mum had been there: «You came fifth, sweetheart — and it was brilliant.» The class clapped for fifth anyway. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/21/) — Not every lie is about showing off. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/23/) — Photos from that party went on the group chat, and her friend cried; the lie hurt more than the truth would have. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/26/) — Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/27/) — You can check some boasts with facts: whether a product exists, how long a game level takes. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/28/) — If someone always has a reason why you can't see the thing, it is probably a story, not a fact. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/29/) — A blurry or faraway photo is not real proof. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/30/) — You can enjoy a story without deciding whether it is true. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/31/) — People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/32/) — A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, but I can do this» is fine. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/33/) — Kind honesty, like «I'm going to another party, sorry I can't do both», hurts less than a lie found out later. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/34/) — A real result, like fifth place, is worth more than a fake first. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/35/) — What is really true about people you love is enough; bigging it up makes the real thing look small. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/36/) — Not every lie needs to be caught; sometimes the kind thing is to let it drop and like the person anyway. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/37/) — «Goated» means the greatest of all time; «lush» (Wales, West Country) means lovely; «innit» (London) means «isn't it» or «right?». - ← previous: [Big kids, little kids and the truth at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) - next →: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)