--- title: Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly, so fixing it takes patience… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly, so fixing it takes patience; and one forgotten job or one dropped baton does not make you useless. Who acts: Trust, fixing, one forgotten job. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trust, fixing, one forgotten job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:5 # text = Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly, so fixing it takes patience; and one forgotten job or one dropped baton does not make you useless. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fast fast ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 fixing fix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj 12 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj 13 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 baton baton NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | Trust | | | | | fast *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | present | Trust *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fix** | gerund | | Trust | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **take** | present | fixing | patience | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme | | 5 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | one forgotten job or one dropped baton | you | | | | useless *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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. **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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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