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title: Tom said he was at the park but went to the river, and now Mum wants… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom said he was at the park but went to the river, and now Mum wants a text every time he arrives anywhere for a month; it feels harsh, but each text is one rung on a ladder back up. Who acts: Tom, Mum, text. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics 
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 1

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Tom said he was at the park but went to the river, and now Mum wants a text every time he arrives anywhere for a month; it feels harsh, but each text is one rung on a ladder back up.

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**Who acts:** Tom, Mum, text · **What happens:** say, be, go, want, arrive, feel · **To what, where:** park, river, text, time, one rung, ladder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics 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 (Tom, Mum, text), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:1
# text = Tom said he was at the park but went to the river, and now Mum wants a text every time he arrives anywhere for a month; it feels harsh, but each text is one rung on a ladder back up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
16	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl
24	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
31	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	rung	rung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	up	up	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Tom |  |  | the park |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **want** | present | Mum | a text |  |  | now; time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot text=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | present | Tom | every time *not said here* |  |  | month | anywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | present | text |  |  |  |  | harsh *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | present | each text | one rung |  | a ladder |  |  | tree rules |

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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:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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