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title: Is all street painting illegal? — Street art and graffiti: legal walls v… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is all street painting illegal? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

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Is all street painting illegal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t11:1
# text = Is all street painting illegal?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | all street painting *obl:unmarked*; illegal *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, every wall painting is a crime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, every wall painting is a crime
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | every wall painting | a crime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, unless it is in chalk only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, unless it is in chalk only
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  | chalk |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, murals with permission are legal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t11:o3:1
# text = No, murals with permission are legal
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	murals	mural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | murals with permission |  |  |  |  | legal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, because walls belong to nobody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t11:o4:1
# text = No, because walls belong to nobody
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | walls |  |  |  |  | to nobody | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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