--- title: When Leah's dad was a boy he nicked (stole) sweets from Mr Patel's s… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics description: When Leah's dad was a boy he nicked (stole) sweets from Mr Patel's shop; Mr Patel let him work Saturdays to pay it back, and a year later trusted him with the till. Who acts: dad, other, Mr. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/19/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/) / 19 # Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 19 When Leah's dad was a boy he nicked (stole) sweets from Mr Patel's shop; Mr Patel let him work Saturdays to pay it back, and a year later trusted him with the till. **Who acts:** dad, other, Mr · **What happens:** be, nick, let, work, pay back, trust · **To what, where:** boy, stole sweets, shop, other 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 (dad, other, Mr), 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:19 # text = When Leah's dad was a boy he nicked (stole) sweets from Mr Patel's shop; Mr Patel let him work Saturdays to pay it back, and a year later trusted him with the till. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 Leah Leah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 nicked nick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stole stole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 Patel Patel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 18 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 Patel Patel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 Saturdays Saturday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl:unmarked 34 later later ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 trusted trust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 till till NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Leah's dad | a boy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nick** | past | other | stole sweets | | Mr's shop | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme from shop=Source | | 3 | **let** | past | Mr | other | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | infinitive | other *not said here* | | | | saturday | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pay back** | to-infinitive | other *not said here* | shop | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | | 6 | **trust** | past | other *not said here* | | other | | | with the till; later *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with till=Theme | 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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:19`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/18/) - next →: [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/)