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title: Being trustworthy means behaving well when no one is watching, and t… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: Being trustworthy means behaving well when no one is watching, and taking care when someone small depends on you. Who acts: trustworthy, one, someone. 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 an
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 6

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Being trustworthy means behaving well when no one is watching, and taking care when someone small depends on you.

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**Who acts:** trustworthy, one, someone · **What happens:** be, mean, behave, watch, take, depend · **To what, where:** care

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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 (trustworthy, one, someone), 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:6
# text = Being trustworthy means behaving well when no one is watching, and taking care when someone small depends on you.
# 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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	cop	_	_
2	trustworthy	trustworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	behaving	behave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | trustworthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | trustworthy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **behave** *not said to happen* | gerund | trustworthy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **watch** | present · progressive | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | trustworthy *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **depend** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | on you | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on you=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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:6`.

**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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