--- title: Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Aesop's fable a shepherd boy cried "Wolf!" for fun so many times that, when a real wolf came, nobody believed him; trus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness # Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness Lesson 34 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/0/) — In Aesop's fable a shepherd boy cried "Wolf!" for fun so many times that, when a real wolf came, nobody believed him; trust is built on honesty, and once it is broken it is hard to rebuild. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/1/) — Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving; a white lie, like saying you love a present you dislike, is told to be kind, and people disagree about such lies, but there is often a kind way to be honest: "Thank you, it was so thoughtful of you." - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/2/) — Fairness means no favourites; it does not always mean everyone gets the same: equality gives everyone the same, while equity gives each person what they need to have the same chance, like glasses for the child who cannot see the board. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/3/) — Kindness is choosing to help, include and care, and it grows from empathy, imagining how another person feels, "walking in their shoes"; Christians remember Jesus' Golden Rule: do to others what you would want them to do to you. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/4/) — Bullying, hurting again and again someone who finds it hard to defend themselves, is always wrong, and bystanders can help stop it; gratitude, noticing good things and saying thank you, makes people happier and kinder. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/5/) — Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving others. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/7/) — In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, the boy who cried wolf was not believed when a real wolf came. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/8/) — A white lie is a small lie told to be polite or to spare feelings; people disagree about whether white lies are right. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/9/) — There is often a way to be both honest and kind, for example thanking someone for their thought. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/10/) — Fairness means treating people without favourites, equally or according to what they need or deserve. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/11/) — Equality gives everyone the same; equity gives each person what they need to have the same chance. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/12/) — Kindness is choosing to help, include and care for others. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/13/) — Empathy means imagining how someone else feels, "walking in their shoes". - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/14/) — Jesus taught the Golden Rule: do to others what you would want them to do to you. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/15/) — Bullying is hurting someone again and again who finds it hard to defend themselves; it is always wrong. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/16/) — Bystanders can help stop bullying by not joining in, supporting the victim and telling an adult. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/17/) — Gratitude means noticing good things and saying thank you; grateful people tend to be happier and kinder. - ← previous: [Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/) - next →: [Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)