--- title: Trust is built from many true words and can be lost with one big lie… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Trust is built from many true words and can be lost with one big lie; after that even the true words sound suspect, like the boy who cried wolf. Who acts: true words, boy. 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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 (true words, boy), 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:2 # text = Trust is built from many true words and can be lost with one big lie; after that even the true words sound suspect, like the boy who cried wolf. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 19 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 24 suspect suspect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Trust | | many true words | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from word=Material | | 2 | **lose** | can · passive | | | | | | with one big lie | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **sound** | present | the true words | | | | after that | like the boy; suspect *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the boy | wolf | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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