Our street against theirs, sentence 15

Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti, a kind of vandalism; the council pays to clean it, and that money comes from everyone.

Who acts: council, money · What happens: paint, be, pay, clean, come · To what, where: words, bus stop, council, everyone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday 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 (council, money), 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	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 graffiti	nsubj
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Painting	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stop	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stop	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	compound
6	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wall	cc
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	12 graffiti	case
10	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 graffiti	compound
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 graffiti	cop
12	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kind	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 graffiti	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 vandalism	case
17	vandalism	vandalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pays	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 council	det
20	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pays	nsubj
21	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 graffiti	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 clean	mark
23	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pays	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clean	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 comes	cc
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 money	det
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comes	nsubj
29	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pays	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 everyone	case
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 comes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 graffiti	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		words	a bus stop or wall		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on stop=Destination
2	is	present				without permission graffiti	tree rules
3	pay	present	the council				tree rules
4	clean	to-infinitive	the council not said here	council			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	come	present	that money		everyone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from everyone=Initial_Location

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:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:15.

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 ×1, 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.

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