Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 1

A huge mural on a block of flats, paid for by the council, is legal and often loved; a name sprayed on a bus shelter without asking is vandalism.

Who acts: huge mural · What happens: pay, be, love, spray, ask · To what, where: huge mural, name, bus shelter, vandalism

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts 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 (huge mural), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mural	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mural	amod
3	mural	mural	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 legal	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 block	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 block	det
6	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mural	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 flats	case
8	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 block	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paid	punct
10	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mural	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 paid	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 council	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 council	det
14	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 block	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 legal	cop
17	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 loved	cc
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 loved	advmod
20	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 legal	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sprayed	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 name	det
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprayed	nsubj:pass
24	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 legal	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 shelter	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shelter	det
27	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shelter	compound
28	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprayed	obl
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 asking	mark
30	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sprayed	advcl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 vandalism	cop
32	vandalism	vandalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 legal	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 legal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		a huge mural on a block of flats not said here		by the council	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a huge mural on a block of flats			legal property	tree rules
3	love	participle	a huge mural on a block of flats not said here			often property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	spray	participle · passive		a name	a bus shelter		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on shelter=Destination
5	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	a huge mural on a block of flats not said here	vandalism			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.

Licence: CC 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:arts:019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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