Lies that do real harm Lesson 197 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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 .
0 Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. 1 Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers. 2 Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services. 3 Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults from helping. 5 When a real wolf comes, nobody believes him. 6 False alarms make it harder to be believed when it truly matters. 7 If you have told a harmful lie, the bravest and best thing is to tell the truth quickly, before the harm grows. 8 Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get punished and they lose trust in you. 9 Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove; a false accusation can damage a person's name for a long time. 10 Lying to get someone else in trouble is a serious wrong, and if you did it, telling the truth quickly is the way to fix it. 11 False alarms make it harder for you to be believed when you really need help. 12 Doctors and nurses need true facts to treat you properly, and they are there to help, not to punish. 13 Parents and teachers can only help with problems they know about. 14 Your parents or carers need to know where you are and who you are with, so they can find you if something goes wrong. 15 Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children from content and contacts that are not safe. 16 Never joke about swallowing pills or being hurt; if it is true, tell an adult at once. 17 Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law. 18 A boy in Ohio lied that a classmate had stolen his money; the classmate was punished for weeks before the truth came out, and the boy lost his friends' trust. 19 A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents. 21 Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people and can get you into serious trouble. ← previous White lies and kind silencenext → Telling when someone may be lying↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/