Test 11 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism
Is all street painting illegal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 illegal | cop |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 painting | det |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painting | compound |
| 4 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 illegal | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 illegal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all street painting obl:unmarked; illegal property | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, every wall painting is a crime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 crime | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 painting | det |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 painting | compound |
| 5 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crime | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crime | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crime | det |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | every wall painting | a crime | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, unless it is in chalk only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 chalk | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chalk | punct |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 7 chalk | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chalk | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chalk | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chalk | case |
| 7 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 chalk | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | chalk | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, murals with permission are legal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 murals | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 legal | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 permission | case |
| 5 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 murals | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 legal | cop |
| 7 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | murals with permission | legal property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, because walls belong to nobody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 belong | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 belong | mark |
| 4 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 nobody | case |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 belong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | walls | to nobody | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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