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title: Many cities have legal walls where anyone can practise graffiti, and… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Many cities have legal walls where anyone can practise graffiti, and good murals are planned on paper first, with a sketch, a grid to scale it up, and the owner's agreement. Who acts: Many cities, anyone, owner. A sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 3

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Many cities have legal walls where anyone can practise graffiti, and good murals are planned on paper first, with a sketch, a grid to scale it up, and the owner's agreement.

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**Who acts:** Many cities, anyone, owner · **What happens:** have, practise, plan, scale up, agree · **To what, where:** legal walls, graffiti, good murals, paper, mural

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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 (Many cities, anyone, owner), 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:3
# text = Many cities have legal walls where anyone can practise graffiti, and good murals are planned on paper first, with a sketch, a grid to scale it up, and the owner's agreement.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	murals	mural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	scale	scale	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many cities | legal walls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 2 | **practise** | can | anyone | graffiti |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plan** | present · passive |  | good murals |  | paper |  | with a sketch and a grid and the owner's agreement; first *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **scale up** | to-infinitive |  | mural |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 5 | **agree** |  | the owner |  |  |  |  |  | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: 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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**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:3`.

**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.

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

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