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title: If you are blocked, chasing the person with new accounts makes thing… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are blocked, chasing the person with new accounts makes things worse; give space and talk face to face. Who acts: chasing, you. 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 cla
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# Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 34

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If you are blocked, chasing the person with new accounts makes things worse; give space and talk face to face.

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**Who acts:** chasing, you · **What happens:** block, chase, make, give, talk, face · **To what, where:** you, person, things, space

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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 (chasing, you), 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:34
# text = If you are blocked, chasing the person with new accounts makes things worse; give space and talk face to face.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
22	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund |  | the person |  |  |  | with new accounts | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | chasing | things |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 4 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | space and face |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **face** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:34`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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