Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 8
Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.
Who acts: cities, legal walls, paintings · What happens: have, call, allow, change · To what, where: legal walls, free walls, graffiti · 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 (cities, legal walls, paintings), 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 cities | det |
| 2 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walls | amod |
| 5 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walls | acl |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walls | amod |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowed | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 allowed | advmod |
| 13 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 allowed | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walls | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 change | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 change | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 paintings | det |
| 19 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 change | nsubj |
| 20 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 21 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 change | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | 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 | some cities | legal walls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | legal walls not said here | free walls | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | allow | present · passive | graffiti | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | change | present | the paintings | quickly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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