--- title: In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usua… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics description: In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs. Who acts: bombing. A sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Street art and graffiti: legal walls v…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/) / 12 # Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 12 In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs. **Who acts:** bombing · **What happens:** mean, spray, have, do · **To what, where:** graffiti slang, lots, nothing 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 (bombing), 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:12 # text = In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 graffiti graffiti NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bombing bombing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 spraying spray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 tags tag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 illegally illegally ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 bombs bomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | bombing | | | graffiti slang | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **spray** *not said to happen* | gerund | bombing *not said here* | lots of tags | | | | quickly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | bombing | nothing | | | | illegally *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | bombing *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with real bombs | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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. 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