--- title: Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly; secrets can feel powerful t… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly; secrets can feel powerful to share, but trust is worth more. Who acts: Trust, secrets. A sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/4-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets/8/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Letting a friend down: broken promises…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/4-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets/) / 8 # Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 8 Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly; secrets can feel powerful to share, but trust is worth more. **Who acts:** Trust, secrets · **What happens:** break, grow, feel, share, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection 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 (Trust, secrets), 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:8 # text = Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly; secrets can feel powerful to share, but trust is worth more. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 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 , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **feel** | can | secrets | | | | | powerful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **share** | to-infinitive | secrets *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | trust | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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. **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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