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"It's a mess!"; but train tracks are never a place for art, because fast, quiet trains and electrified rails kill. **Who acts:** street art, towns, neighbours, art, train tracks, fast quiet trains · **What happens:** become, protect, love, argue, be, not be · **To what, where:** loved graffiti, glass, art, mess, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (street art, towns, neighbours, art), 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:4 # text = Some street art becomes famous, like Banksy's stencils, and some towns protect loved graffiti behind glass while neighbours argue "It's art!" "It's a mess!"; but train tracks are never a place for art, because fast, quiet trains and electrified rails kill. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Banksy Banksy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 stencils stencil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 graffiti graffiti NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 47 because because SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 48 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 50 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 electrified electrify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 amod _ _ 54 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 55 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | some street art | | | | | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **protect** | present | some towns | loved graffiti | | glass | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graffiti=Beneficiary | | 3 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | neighbours | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | art | art | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | art | a mess | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | train tracks | a place | | | | for art | tree rules | | 8 | **electrify** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **kill** | present | fast quiet trains and electrified rails | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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