--- title: Trust is believing that someone's words are true and that they will… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Trust is believing that someone's words are true and that they will do what they say; honesty is what makes trust possible. Who acts: Trust, words, honesty, someone. 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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, words, honesty, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:0 # text = Trust is believing that someone's words are true and that they will do what they say; honesty is what makes trust possible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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): no change 1 Trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 19 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 23 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **believe** | present · progressive | Trust | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | someone's words | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | future | words *= word* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | words *= word* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | honesty | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | | trust | | | | possible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product | | 7 | **word** | | someone | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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