--- title: Cheating at school: copying and peeking — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Cheating at school: copying and peeking», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are not really yours: copying, peeking, using hidden note --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/) [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/) / Cheating at school: copying and peeking # Cheating at school: copying and peeking Lesson 92 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/0/) — Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are not really yours: copying, peeking, using hidden notes or handing in someone else's work. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/1/) — Mason says, "Lemme copy your maths, I'll change a few answers so it's not sus"; but homework is practice, so copying skips the learning, and the teacher thinks he understands when he doesn't. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/3/) — Small cheating trains the habit, and honest work trains honesty: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10). - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/4/) — If you are tempted because you're scared or stuck, tell the teacher; you'll get help, not trouble. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/5/) — Copying homework means you skip the learning, and the teacher thinks you understand when you don't. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/6/) — "Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel" (Proverbs 20:17). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/7/) — A peek is cheating even if you'd have got most of it right; if everyone peeked, tests would mean nothing. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/8/) — Handing in AI-written work as yours is like copying; schools have their own rules about how AI may be used. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/9/) — A prize for work a parent did is unfair to the other children: "The Lord detests dishonest scales" (Proverbs 11:1). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/10/) — Fear and pressure make cheating more likely; "Cast all your anxiety on him" (1 Peter 5:7), and tell your teacher you're struggling. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/11/) — "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2): if lots of kids cheat, you're not a fool for being honest. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/12/) — Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister" (Romans 14:13). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/13/) — Self-marking is an honour system: it only works with trust; an honest 8 out of 10 beats a fake 10. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/14/) — "A man reaps what he sows" (Galatians 6:7): skipped reading leaves gaps you trip over later. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/15/) — God sees what no one else sees (Psalm 139:1-4); the vicar calls honesty "what we are when only God is watching". - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/16/) — Plato's story of the ring of Gyges, a ring that made its wearer invisible, asks whether you would still be honest if nobody could see you. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/17/) — "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart" (Colossians 3:23). - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/18/) — Slang check: "sus" means suspicious; "bare man" (London) means loads of people; "a mug" means a fool; "lowkey" means sort of. - ← previous: [Owning up when it is hard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)