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title: Some graffiti becomes so loved that towns protect it behind glass, w… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Some graffiti becomes so loved that towns protect it behind glass, while others think all graffiti should go; councils must decide, and opinions are split. Who acts: towns, others, graffiti, councils. A sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of 
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 16

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Some graffiti becomes so loved that towns protect it behind glass, while others think all graffiti should go; councils must decide, and opinions are split.

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**Who acts:** towns, others, graffiti, councils · **What happens:** become, love, protect, think, go, decide · **To what, where:** graffiti, glass, opinions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (towns, others, graffiti, councils), 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:16
# text = Some graffiti becomes so loved that towns protect it behind glass, while others think all graffiti should go; councils must decide, and opinions are split.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	xcomp	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
15	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** *not said to happen* | present · passive |  | some graffiti |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **protect** | present | towns | graffiti |  | glass |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | should | all graffiti |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **decide** | must | councils |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **split** | present · passive |  | opinions |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:16`.

**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 ×3, 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.

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

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