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title: Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti. What… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls v… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti. What is a good way to think it through? Test 9 · ★★ 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;
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

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Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti. What is a good way to think it through?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two neighbours · **What happens:** shout, be, think through · **To what, where:** each, good way, way

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:1
# text = Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti.
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Ellie's two neighbours |  |  | each |  | about the graffiti | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about graffiti=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is a good way to think it through?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:2
# text = What is a good way to think it through?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think through** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | way |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Paint over it yourself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:o1:1
# text = Paint over it yourself
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Listen to both sides before deciding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:o2:1
# text = Listen to both sides before deciding
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to both sides | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ignore both of them for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:o3:1
# text = Ignore both of them for ever
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | both |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pick whoever shouts the loudest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t9:o4:1
# text = Pick whoever shouts the loudest
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | infinitive | whoever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | whoever | the loudest |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loud=Topic |

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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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