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title: If you have lied before, the only way to win trust back is to keep t… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: If you have lied before, the only way to win trust back is to keep telling the truth, day after day. Who acts: you, only way. 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
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 5

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If you have lied before, the only way to win trust back is to keep telling the truth, day after day.

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**Who acts:** you, only way · **What happens:** lie, win back, be, tell · **To what, where:** trust, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, only way), 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:5
# text = If you have lied before, the only way to win trust back is to keep telling the truth, day after day.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win back** | to-infinitive | the only way *not said here* | trust |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | the only way |  |  |  |  | keep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the only way *not said here* | the truth |  |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

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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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:5`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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