Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 2
Picture Callum's mate spraying his tag (a quick signature) on the bus shelter and saying "it's just art, innit": the next day a council worker scrubs it off, paid for with everyone's taxes.
Who acts: you, shelter, council worker, Callum, everyone · What happens: picture, spray, say, be, scrub off, pay · To what, where: mate, tag, bus shelter, art, shelter · 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 (you, shelter, council worker, Callum), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Callum | case |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | spraying | spray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tag | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spraying | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 signature | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 signature | det |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 signature | amod |
| 11 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tag | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 signature | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shelter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shelter | det |
| 15 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shelter | compound |
| 16 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spraying | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saying | cc |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spraying | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 art | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 art | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 art | cop |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 art | advmod |
| 23 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 innit | punct |
| 25 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 art | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 art | punct |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 scrubs | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scrubs | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 worker | det |
| 32 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 worker | compound |
| 33 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scrubs | nsubj |
| 34 | scrubs | scrub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spraying | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 scrubs | obj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 scrubs | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 paid | punct |
| 38 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 scrubs | advcl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 taxes | case |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 taxes | case |
| 41 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 43 taxes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 everyone | case |
| 43 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 paid | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Callum's mate | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent mate=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | spray | gerund | you not said here | Callum's tag | the bus shelter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tag=Theme on shelter=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | shelter | art and innit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scrub off | present | a council worker | shelter | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | pay | participle | a council worker not said here | for everyone's taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tax=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tag | Callum | nom tag «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | tax | everyone | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=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:2.
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, R6-punct-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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