Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 9

Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secret; his stencils often joke about war, money and power.

Who acts: Banksy, stencils · What happens: be, keep, joke · To what, where: British street artist, name

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 (Banksy, stencils), 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	Banksy	Banksy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 artist	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 artist	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 artist	det
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 artist	amod
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 artist	compound
6	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj:pass
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 face	cc
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	aux:pass
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 artist	acl:relcl
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kept	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 joke	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stencils	nmod:poss
16	stencils	stencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 joke	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 joke	advmod
18	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 artist	parataxis
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 war	case
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 joke	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 money	punct
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 war	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 power	cc
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 war	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 artist	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Banksy	a British street artist		tree rules
2	keep	present · passive		name and face	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	joke speech: other	present	name's stencils		about war and money and power; often property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about war=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:9.

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): 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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