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title: When someone trusts you to tick or sign for yourself, using it to li… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone trusts you to tick or sign for yourself, using it to lie breaks that trust. Who acts: someone, using. A sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 31

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When someone trusts you to tick or sign for yourself, using it to lie breaks that trust.

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**Who acts:** someone, using · **What happens:** trust, tick, sign, use, lie, break · **To what, where:** you, note, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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 (someone, using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:31
# text = When someone trusts you to tick or sign for yourself, using it to lie breaks that trust.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tick	tick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sign	sign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl
16	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:det|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Dem
18	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **trust** | present | someone | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tick** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sign** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for yourself | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent for yourself=Topic |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | note |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lie** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **break** | present | using | that trust |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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