Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 7

Writing or spraying on property without permission is vandalism; someone has to pay to clean it, often the town using taxes, and getting caught can mean fines or worse.

Who acts: Writing, someone, town, getting · What happens: write, spray, be, have, pay, clean · To what, where: property, vandalism, permission, taxes, fines · 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 (Writing, someone, town, getting), 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	Writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 vandalism	csubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 spraying	cc
3	spraying	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Writing	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 property	case
5	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spraying	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 permission	case
7	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spraying	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 vandalism	cop
9	vandalism	vandalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 vandalism	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pay	mark
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 has	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 clean	mark
16	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pay	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clean	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 town	punct
19	often	often	ADV	_	21 town	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vandalism	conj
22	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 town	acl
23	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 using	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mean	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mean	cc
26	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 mean	csubj
27	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 getting	xcomp
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 mean	aux
29	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 vandalism	conj
30	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mean	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 worse	cc
32	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 fines	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 vandalism	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	gerund					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spray	gerund			property	without permission	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on property=Destination
3	is a	present	Writing	vandalism and the town			tree rules
4	have	present	someone				tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	someone not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	clean	to-infinitive	someone not said here	permission			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	use	gerund	the town not said here	taxes			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Patient
8	get	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	mean	can	getting	fines			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic

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:7.

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 ×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.

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