--- title: You don't have to keep reading nasty comments; blocking them is not… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics description: You don't have to keep reading nasty comments; blocking them is not giving up. Who acts: You, blocking. A sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/27/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/) / 27 # Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 27 You don't have to keep reading nasty comments; blocking them is not giving up. **Who acts:** You, blocking · **What happens:** not have, keep, read, block, not give up · **To what, where:** nasty comments, comments This is a sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday 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 (You, blocking), 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:27 # text = You don't have to keep reading nasty comments; blocking them is not giving up. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 comments comment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 blocking block VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 parataxis _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **read** | gerund | You *not said here* | nasty comments | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comment=Topic | | 4 | **block** | gerund | | comments *= comment* | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme | | 5 | **not** **give up** | present · progressive | blocking | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:27`. **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, R8-pos-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, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/26/) - next →: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/)