Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 16

Some graffiti becomes so loved that towns protect it behind glass, while others think all graffiti should go; councils must decide, and opinions are split.

Who acts: towns, others, graffiti, councils · What happens: become, love, protect, think, go, decide · To what, where: graffiti, glass, opinions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (towns, others, graffiti, councils), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 graffiti	det
2	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj:pass
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
5	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 protect	mark
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protect	nsubj
8	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 protect	obj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 glass	case
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protect	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 think	mark
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 protect	parataxis
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 graffiti	det
17	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 think	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 councils	punct
21	councils	council	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 decide	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 decide	aux
23	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loved	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 split	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 split	cc
26	opinions	opinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 split	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 split	aux:pass
28	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 decide	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	become not said to happen	present · passive		some graffiti		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	love	participle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	protect	present	towns	graffiti	glass	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
4	think speech: other	present	others			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	should	all graffiti			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	decide	must	councils			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	split	present · passive		opinions		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, 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:16.

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 ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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