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title: Good murals start with a plan: a sketch, a grid of squares to copy a… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Good murals start with a plan: a sketch, a grid of squares to copy a small picture large, and agreement with the owner. Who acts: Good murals. 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 pra
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 14

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Good murals start with a plan: a sketch, a grid of squares to copy a small picture large, and agreement with the owner.

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**Who acts:** Good murals · **What happens:** start, copy · **To what, where:** small picture

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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 (Good murals), 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:14
# text = Good murals start with a plan: a sketch, a grid of squares to copy a small picture large, and agreement with the owner.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	murals	mural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Good murals |  |  |  |  | with a plan | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with plan=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **copy** | to-infinitive | Good murals *not said here* | a small picture |  |  |  | large *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |

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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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**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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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