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title: Trust is earned by what people do over time, not by how often they s… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: Trust is earned by what people do over time, not by how often they say «trust me». Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 7

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Trust is earned by what people do over time, not by how often they say «trust me».

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** earn, do, not say, trust · **To what, where:** Trust, People · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:7
# text = Trust is earned by what people do over time, not by how often they say «trust me».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | present · passive |  | Trust |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | people |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | People |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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