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title: Being tricked once does not mean trusting no-one; it means trusting… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: Being tricked once does not mean trusting no-one; it means trusting carefully, knowing the signs. Who acts: front. 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.
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# Trusting again, sentence 43

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Being tricked once does not mean trusting no-one; it means trusting carefully, knowing the signs.

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**Who acts:** front · **What happens:** trick, not mean, trust, mean, know · **To what, where:** one, signs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (front), 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:43
# text = Being tricked once does not mean trusting no-one; it means trusting carefully, knowing the signs.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **trick** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **trust** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | front |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **trust** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** | gerund |  | the signs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |

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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:455-trusting-again.lesson:43`.

**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 ×2. **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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