--- title: Blocking a friend in a temper turns a small thing bigger; save block… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics description: Blocking a friend in a temper turns a small thing bigger; save blocking for people who keep hurting you. Who acts: Blocking, people. 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 claus --- [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/35/) [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/) / 35 # Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 35 Blocking a friend in a temper turns a small thing bigger; save blocking for people who keep hurting you. **Who acts:** Blocking, people · **What happens:** block, turn, save, keep, hurt · **To what, where:** friend, temper, small thing, blocking, you 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 (Blocking, people), 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:35 # text = Blocking a friend in a temper turns a small thing bigger; save blocking for people who keep hurting you. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blocking block VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 blocking block NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **block** | gerund | | a friend | | a temper | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Patient in temper=Location | | 2 | **turn** | present | Blocking | a small thing | | | | big *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **save** | infinitive | | blocking | | | | for people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent block=Theme for people=Beneficiary | | 4 | **keep** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hurt** | gerund | people *not said here* | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | 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:35`. **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, 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. 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