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title: A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals. Who acts: mural. A sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 6

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A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.

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**Who acts:** mural · **What happens:** be, do, pay · **To what, where:** big wall painting

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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 (mural), 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:6
# text = A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mural	mural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a mural | a big wall painting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | a big wall painting *not said here* |  |  |  | with permission | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  | a big wall painting *not said here* |  |  |  | for councils and building owners or festivals; often *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for council=Theme |

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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 ×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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