--- title: Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every claim goes in one of three piles: TRUE (checked and shown real), FALSE (checked and shown wrong) and NOT SURE YET ( --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Checking practice: true, false and not… # Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet Lesson 36 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/0/) — Every claim goes in one of three piles: TRUE (checked and shown real), FALSE (checked and shown wrong) and NOT SURE YET (nobody has checked), and the third pile is allowed. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/1/) — Think of a lost-property box: some things clearly belong to you, some clearly do not, and some you cannot tell until you look for your name inside; you would not grab a coat just because it looks like yours. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/2/) — Practice makes it quick: an amazing shark photo during a flood, "the election's cancelled" from one clip, a famous footballer's quote with no when or where, a chain message that orders you to forward it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/4/) — Many people share fakes to warn the people they love, not to lie, so laughing at them only makes them stop listening. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/5/) — A shark-on-a-flooded-motorway photo turns up after almost every big flood; it has been checked many times and is an old picture edited to add the shark. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/6/) — A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/7/) — Some false claims about voting days are spread on purpose to stop people voting, which is called voter suppression. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/8/) — Anyone can type words next to a famous face; a real quote usually comes with when and where it was said, and searching the exact words can find it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/9/) — "Not sure yet" is an honest answer, and a small idea, like a council discussing pets, can grow into a bigger story as it is passed on. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/10/) — Death hoaxes about famous people spread often; saying "I was wrong, it was a fake" is what careful people do. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/11/) — Misinformation is false information shared by someone who thinks it is true; disinformation is made on purpose to trick. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/12/) — A kind private message such as "I think this one is old, here's where I checked" works better than laughing at someone in the group. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/13/) — Headlines often make a small study sound huge; the study may have tested few people or found something tiny, and usually says "more research is needed". - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/14/) — Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad, and it was reported that slowed-down clips of real politicians were shared this way. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/15/) — Forwarding a message cannot protect or hack a phone; chain messages spread by making people scared. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/16/) — Words in this lesson: "nesh" in the North and Midlands of England means always feeling the cold; "mardy" means grumpy or sulky; "now now" in South Africa means soon; "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cool. - ← previous: [How to check: who, how, who else](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/) - next →: [School councils and class reps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)