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 .
0 Ryan in Leeds told the class he had a PS6 — when no PS6 was on sale anywhere. 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 Ryan said his was «special». 3 Nobody believed a word he said for the rest of term. 4 Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect. 5 Boasts often have a tell: the thing can never be seen. 6 Tom's friend had «like five hundred» rare Pokémon cards — «in a safe, at the bank». 8 Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back. 9 Fuzzy proof is not proof — but you can enjoy a story without needing to decide it is true. 10 Some boasts crash into facts. 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 They cheered, and he felt better than after all the excuses. 15 Kindness can save a friendship when a boast comes out. 16 Chloe said her dad was a millionaire; when Mia came round to a normal flat with a cosy sofa, Chloe went red. 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 They stayed friends. 19 People often lie because they feel small. 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 Not every lie is about showing off. 23 Photos from that party went on the group chat, and her friend cried; the lie hurt more than the truth would have. 26 Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust. 27 You can check some boasts with facts: whether a product exists, how long a game level takes. 28 If someone always has a reason why you can't see the thing, it is probably a story, not a fact. 29 A blurry or faraway photo is not real proof. 30 You can enjoy a story without deciding whether it is true. 31 People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship. 32 A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, but I can do this» is fine. 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 A real result, like fifth place, is worth more than a fake first. 35 What is really true about people you love is enough; bigging it up makes the real thing look small. 36 Not every lie needs to be caught; sometimes the kind thing is to let it drop and like the person anyway. 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 homenext → Boasting cousins and made-up holidays↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/