Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 12
In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs.
Who acts: bombing · What happens: mean, spray, have, do · To what, where: graffiti slang, lots, nothing
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 (bombing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 slang | case |
| 2 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slang | compound |
| 3 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bombing | punct |
| 5 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | spraying | spray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spraying | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tags | case |
| 10 | tags | tag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lots | nmod |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 spraying | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slang | punct |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 illegally | advmod |
| 14 | illegally | illegally | ADV | _ | 17 has | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nothing | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 bombs | case |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bombs | amod |
| 23 | bombs | bomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | bombing | graffiti slang | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spray not said to happen | gerund | bombing not said here | lots of tags | quickly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | bombing | nothing | illegally property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | bombing not said here | nothing not said here | with real bombs | vn act-114-1 «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, 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:12.
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): 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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