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title: The quickest road back is a full, honest apology with no "but", maki… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: The quickest road back is a full, honest apology with no "but", making amends in deeds, and being faithful in small things, day after day. Who acts: quickest road, full honest apology. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 4

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The quickest road back is a full, honest apology with no "but", making amends in deeds, and being faithful in small things, day after day.

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**Who acts:** quickest road, full honest apology · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** full honest apology, amends, deeds, small things

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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 (quickest road, full honest apology), 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:4
# text = The quickest road back is a full, honest apology with no "but", making amends in deeds, and being faithful in small things, day after day.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quickest	quick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
18	amends	amends	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the quickest road | a full honest apology |  |  |  | with no | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | a full honest apology *not said here* | amends |  | deeds |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=Product |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | a full honest apology *not said here* |  |  | small things |  | faithful *property* | 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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**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): R6-punct-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.

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