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title: Picture Callum's mate spraying his tag (a quick signature) on the bu… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Callum's mate spraying his tag (a quick signature) on the bus shelter and saying "it's just art, innit": the next day a council worker scrubs it off, paid for with everyone's taxes. Who acts: you, shelter, council worker, Callum. A sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 2

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Picture Callum's mate spraying his tag (a quick signature) on the bus shelter and saying "it's just art, innit": the next day a council worker scrubs it off, paid for with everyone's taxes.

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**Who acts:** you, shelter, council worker, Callum, everyone · **What happens:** picture, spray, say, be, scrub off, pay · **To what, where:** mate, tag, bus shelter, art, shelter · **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 (you, shelter, council worker, Callum), 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:2
# text = Picture Callum's mate spraying his tag (a quick signature) on the bus shelter and saying "it's just art, innit": the next day a council worker scrubs it off, paid for with everyone's taxes.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	spraying	spray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tag	tag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	scrubs	scrub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Callum's mate |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent mate=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **spray** | gerund | you *not said here* | Callum's tag |  | the bus shelter |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tag=Theme on shelter=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | shelter | art and innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **scrub off** | present | a council worker | shelter |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **pay** | participle | a council worker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for everyone's taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tax=Theme |
| 7 | **tag** |  | Callum |  |  |  |  |  | nom tag «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **tax** |  | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R6-punct-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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