---
title: Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true wo… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true words are doubted. Who acts: Many small lies, people, your. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/36/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/) / 36

# Trusting again, sentence 36

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true words are doubted.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Many small lies, people, your · **What happens:** use up, doubt, trust, word · **To what, where:** trust, true words

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (Many small lies, people, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:36
# text = Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true words are doubted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 455-trusting-again.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 ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use up** | can | Many small lies | people's trust |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient |
| 2 | **doubt** | present · passive |  | your true words |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:455-trusting-again.lesson:36`.

**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 ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Trusting again, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/35/)
- next →: [Trusting again, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/37/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/)