Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 5
Street art has its own slang: "bombing" is graffiti slang for spraying lots of tags fast, a "piece" is a big detailed graffiti painting, a "writer" is a graffiti artist, and "ayo" means hey, what.
Who acts: Street art, bombing, big detailed graffiti painting, ayo, art · What happens: have, be, spray, mean, slang · To what, where: own slang, graffiti slang, lots, big detailed graffiti painting, graffiti artist
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 (Street art, bombing, big detailed graffiti painting, ayo), 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 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 art | compound |
| 2 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slang | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | amod |
| 6 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 slang | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bombing | punct |
| 9 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slang | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bombing | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 slang | cop |
| 12 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slang | compound |
| 13 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slang | appos |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 spraying | mark |
| 15 | spraying | spray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 slang | advcl |
| 16 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spraying | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tags | case |
| 18 | tags | tag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lots | nmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 spraying | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 piece | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 piece | punct |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slang | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 piece | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 painting | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 painting | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 painting | amod |
| 28 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 painting | amod |
| 29 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 painting | compound |
| 30 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 artist | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 writer | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 writer | det |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 writer | punct |
| 34 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 painting | appos |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 writer | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 artist | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 artist | det |
| 38 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 artist | compound |
| 39 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | ccomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 means | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 means | cc |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 ayo | punct |
| 43 | ayo | ayo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 means | nsubj |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 ayo | punct |
| 45 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 46 | hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 48 what | discourse |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hey | punct |
| 48 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 means | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Street art | art's own slang | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | bombing | graffiti slang | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spray | gerund | bombing not said here | lots of tags | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a big detailed graffiti painting | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a big detailed graffiti painting | a graffiti artist | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | ayo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | slang | art | nom slang «communication 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:5.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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