--- title: A huge mural on a block of flats, paid for by the council, is legal… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics description: A huge mural on a block of flats, paid for by the council, is legal and often loved; a name sprayed on a bus shelter without asking is vandalism. Who acts: huge mural. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge mural), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson:1 # text = A huge mural on a block of flats, paid for by the council, is legal and often loved; a name sprayed on a bus shelter without asking is vandalism. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mural mural NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 block block NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 10 obl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 sprayed spray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 without without SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 vandalism vandalism NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | participle | | a huge mural on a block of flats *not said here* | | | | by the council | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a huge mural on a block of flats | | | | | legal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **love** | participle | a huge mural on a block of flats *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **spray** | participle · passive | | a name | | a bus shelter | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on shelter=Destination | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | a huge mural on a block of flats *not said here* | vandalism | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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): no change. **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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