--- title: Blocking, muting and walking away — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Blocking, muting and walking away», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Lily reads them again and again at bedtime. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Blocking, muting and walking away # Blocking, muting and walking away Lesson 481 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/1/) — Lily reads them again and again at bedtime. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/2/) — Her dad shows her the block button. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/3/) — She taps it, and the comments vanish. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/4/) — «That's it?» «That's it,» says Dad. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/5/) — Lily feels like she's taken off a heavy bag. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/6/) — Blocking is a tool, not a defeat; you don't have to read what hurts you. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/7/) — Some people try to stop you blocking. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/8/) — Sam's «friend» online says cruel things, then «only joking», and when Sam goes to block him: «if u block me ur a snake and everyone will know» (a snake is a traitor). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/9/) — Sam blocks anyway. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/10/) — Nobody «knows» anything; life goes on, quieter. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/11/) — A girl warns Maddie about leaving a mean chat: «leave and you're next, or else». - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/13/) — Maddie leaves, keeps the message and shows her mum, who shows the school. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/14/) — Muting is the quiet fix. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/15/) — Mia's cousins' chat is one long row about who hosts Thanksgiving, with aunties writing in capital letters, and her phone buzzes 200 times a day. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/16/) — She mutes it, checks once a day, and misses nothing she needs. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/17/) — Lily's dad sits with her and finds, in every app, the block button, the report button, how to make her account private and how to turn off chat with strangers. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/18/) — A week later a stranger messages her, and she knows exactly what to do. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/19/) — Walking away also means walking away from your own rage. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/20/) — Jake, losing at Fortnite, throws his controller and cracks the TV; he loses the console for a month and pays towards the screen. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/22/) — Blocking is for people who keep hurting you, not for friends in a temper: Sam blocks Jake over a laugh, feels silly next morning, and unblocks him. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/24/) — Blocking stops a person messaging you or seeing you on that app; most apps don't tell them they were blocked. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/25/) — Muting hides messages from a chat or person without leaving or blocking; you can check later when you want. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/26/) — Reporting tells the game or app about someone breaking the rules, so they can warn or ban that account. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/27/) — You don't have to keep reading nasty comments; blocking them is not giving up. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/28/) — Someone who threatens you for blocking or leaving is not a friend; block or leave anyway and tell a grown-up. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/30/) — Hateful comments about someone's skin colour or religion should be reported; silence lets hate spread. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/31/) — Learning where the block, mute and report buttons are before trouble comes makes you ready. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/32/) — When a game makes you furious, stepping away and moving your body helps the anger pass. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/34/) — If you are blocked, chasing the person with new accounts makes things worse; give space and talk face to face. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/35/) — Blocking a friend in a temper turns a small thing bigger; save blocking for people who keep hurting you. - ← previous: [The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/) - next →: [Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)