--- title: Blocking is for people who keep hurting you, not for friends in a te… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: people, Sam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:22 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Blocking block VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 unblocks unblock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **block** | gerund | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | for people | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hurt** | gerund | people *not said here* | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 5 | **block** | present | Sam | Jake | | a laugh | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jake=Patient over laugh=Location | | 6 | **feel** | present | Sam *not said here* | | | | morning | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **unblock** | present | Sam *not said here* | Jake | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:22`. **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): 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: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/20/) - next →: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/)