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title: Forgiveness and trust are different: forgiving means letting go of a… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgiveness and trust are different: forgiving means letting go of anger and can happen quickly, while trust is relying on someone again and grows back slowly through kept promises. Who acts: Forgiveness, trust. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethi
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 2

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Forgiveness and trust are different: forgiving means letting go of anger and can happen quickly, while trust is relying on someone again and grows back slowly through kept promises.

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**Who acts:** Forgiveness, trust · **What happens:** be, forgive, mean, let, go, happen · **To what, where:** kept promises · **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 (Forgiveness, trust), 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:2
# text = Forgiveness and trust are different: forgiving means letting go of anger and can happen quickly, while trust is relying on someone again and grows back slowly through kept promises.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	relying	rely	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Forgiveness and trust |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forgive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of anger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of anger=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **happen** | can |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **rely** | present · progressive | trust |  |  |  | again | on someone | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on someone=Theme |
| 8 | **grow back** | present | trust *not said here* |  |  | kept promises |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through promise=Location |
| 9 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×2, 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.

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

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