--- title: Trusting again — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Trusting again», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: After Chloe broke her trust, Mia didn't trust her all at once again. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/) [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/) / Trusting again # Trusting again Lesson 455 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 40 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/455-trusting-again/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/0/) — After Chloe broke her trust, Mia didn't trust her all at once again. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/1/) — She tested it slowly: first a small secret — «I still sleep with my old teddy». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/2/) — Chloe kept it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/3/) — A few weeks later, a bigger one. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/4/) — Chloe kept that too. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/5/) — A year later they were best friends again. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/6/) — Trust is built in small steps, like a wall of bricks: one honest act at a time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/7/) — Saying «trust me» doesn't build it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/8/) — Being trustworthy again and again does. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/9/) — Freya had lied about going to the park. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/11/) — Zoe kept lying about little things — sweets, homework, chores — until her dad said, «I want to believe you, but I can't yet.» That hurt. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/12/) — Zoe started telling the truth even when it was awkward, and after a few months Dad said «I believe you», and Zoe nearly cried. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/13/) — Max had copied homework and owned up; next term his teacher let him mark his own spelling test. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/14/) — «I trust you now.» He marked it honestly — 7 out of 10 — and was prouder of that 7 than of any 10. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/16/) — After Jayden lied about a film, his mom in Georgia said: «Next time you mess up, tell me first, you'll get half the trouble.» He tested it: he broke a glass and told her at once. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/18/) — Grab the broom.» Oisin's da, who'd lied about smoking, said «I won't lie to you any more. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/19/) — If I mess up, I'll tell you.» A month later: «I had one yesterday. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/20/) — I'm sorry.» Oisin hugged him — he trusted his da more because he told the truth when it was hard. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/21/) — Ben and his big brother had blamed each other for years; one day they made a pact: «No more blaming. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/22/) — If one of us does something, he owns it.» The pact mostly held, and Mum said the house was calmer than it had been in years. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/23/) — Friends can rebuild too. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/24/) — Ella in Auckland admitted she'd made up a fancy holiday. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/26/) — Aroha forgave a friend for a cruel prank, but asked her to say sorry to the whole class too, since they'd all laughed. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/27/) — The friend did, and the class stopped laughing at Aroha. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/28/) — And after Sam lost his game account to a scam, he felt he couldn't trust anyone online. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/29/) — His mum taught him the signs; he started gaming again — carefully — spotted two more scams and reported them. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/30/) — Being tricked once doesn't mean trusting no-one. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/31/) — It means trusting with your eyes open. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/34/) — Trust is rebuilt in small steps: small chances first, bigger ones later. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/35/) — Trust is earned by actions over time, not by saying «trust me». - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/36/) — Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true words are doubted. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/37/) — Telling small truths again and again, even awkward ones, is how trust is won back. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/38/) — When someone trusts you again, protecting that trust feels good and is worth it. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/39/) — Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/40/) — Admitting a mistake makes a person easier to trust than someone who claims never to make any. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/41/) — Agreements to own up instead of blaming each other can make a family calmer. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/42/) — When someone hurts you in front of others, it can be fair to ask for an apology in front of the same people. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/43/) — Being tricked once does not mean trusting no-one; it means trusting carefully, knowing the signs. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/44/) — Honesty has three hard parts: saying the truth first, hearing it, and forgiving it; all get easier with practice. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/45/) — Real friends often forgive small lies and like you more when you are honest. - ← previous: [Forgiving](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/) - next →: [The bulldog next door who never likes you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)