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title: Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!» What actually… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!» What actually rebuilds trust? Test 1 of lesson 455 «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · Trusting again

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Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!» What actually rebuilds trust?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** trust, say, rebuild · **To what, where:** me, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 455 «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/455-trusting-again/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:1
# text = Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!»
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  | again |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What actually rebuilds trust?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:2
# text = What actually rebuilds trust?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rebuilds	rebuild	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebuild** | present |  | trust |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Waiting one minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:o1:1
# text = Waiting one minute
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A big expensive present

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:o2:1
# text = A big expensive present
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Saying «trust me» many, many more times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:o3:1
# text = Saying «trust me» many, many more times
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme many=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Being honest again and again over time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:455-trusting-again:t1:o4:1
# text = Being honest again and again over time
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again; time | honest *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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