--- title: Blocking stops a person messaging you or seeing you on that app; mos… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics description: Blocking stops a person messaging you or seeing you on that app; most apps don't tell them they were blocked. Who acts: person, most apps. 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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 (person, most apps), 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:24 # text = Blocking stops a person messaging you or seeing you on that app; most apps don't tell them they were blocked. # 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 VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 messaging message VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 app app NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 apps app NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 blocked block VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - 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 | **stop** | present | | a person | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality person=Eventuality | | 3 | **message** | gerund | a person *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | gerund | a person *not said here* | you | | that app | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | most apps | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **block** | past · passive | | people | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:24`. **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, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/22/) - next →: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/)