--- title: Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics description: Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. Who acts: Trust. A sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/) / 4 # Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 4 Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. **Who acts:** Trust · **What happens:** be, break, mend This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (Trust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:4 # text = Trust is like a glass vase: quick to break and slow to mend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 mend mend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Trust | | | | | like a glass vase | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | Trust *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mend** | to-infinitive | Trust *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/3/) - next →: [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/)