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title: Street art has its own slang: "bombing" is graffiti slang for sprayi… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Street art has its own slang: "bombing" is graffiti slang for spraying lots of tags fast, a "piece" is a big detailed graffiti painting, a "writer" is a graffiti artist, and "ayo" means hey, what. Who acts: Street art, bombing, big detailed graffiti painting, ayo. A sentence of the lesson «Street ar
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 5

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Street art has its own slang: "bombing" is graffiti slang for spraying lots of tags fast, a "piece" is a big detailed graffiti painting, a "writer" is a graffiti artist, and "ayo" means hey, what.

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**Who acts:** Street art, bombing, big detailed graffiti painting, ayo, art · **What happens:** have, be, spray, mean, slang · **To what, where:** own slang, graffiti slang, lots, big detailed graffiti painting, graffiti artist

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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 (Street art, bombing, big detailed graffiti painting, ayo), 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:5
# text = Street art has its own slang: "bombing" is graffiti slang for spraying lots of tags fast, a "piece" is a big detailed graffiti painting, a "writer" is a graffiti artist, and "ayo" means hey, what.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bombing	bombing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
13	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	spraying	spray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl
16	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tags	tag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
30	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
39	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	ayo	ayo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
45	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	48	discourse	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	45	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Street art | art's own slang |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | bombing | graffiti slang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spray** | gerund | bombing *not said here* | lots of tags |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a big detailed graffiti painting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a big detailed graffiti painting | a graffiti artist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | ayo |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 7 | **slang** |  | art |  |  |  |  |  | nom slang «communication 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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