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title: If you lied before and your parents now check up on you more, the wa… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics
description: If you lied before and your parents now check up on you more, the way back is to keep telling the truth, day after day, until trust grows again. Who acts: you, parents, way, trust. A sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 1

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If you lied before and your parents now check up on you more, the way back is to keep telling the truth, day after day, until trust grows again.

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**Who acts:** you, parents, way, trust · **What happens:** lie, check up, be, tell, grow · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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 (you, parents, way, trust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:1
# text = If you lied before and your parents now check up on you more, the way back is to keep telling the truth, day after day, until trust grows again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lied	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **check up** | present | your parents |  |  |  | now | on you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on you=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the way |  |  |  |  | keep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the way *not said here* | the truth |  |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 5 | **grow** | present | trust |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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