--- title: Writing or spraying on property without permission is vandalism; som… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics description: Writing or spraying on property without permission is vandalism; someone has to pay to clean it, often the town using taxes, and getting caught can mean fines or worse. Who acts: Writing, someone, town, getting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Writing, someone, town, getting), 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:7 # text = Writing or spraying on property without permission is vandalism; someone has to pay to clean it, often the town using taxes, and getting caught can mean fines or worse. # 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 ×3 1 Writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 spraying spray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 vandalism vandalism NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 22 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 27 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 xcomp _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 30 fines fine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spray** | gerund | | | | property | | without permission | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on property=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | present | Writing | vandalism and the town | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | someone | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **clean** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | permission | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **use** | gerund | the town *not said here* | taxes | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Patient | | 8 | **get** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 9 | **catch** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | can | getting | fines | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic | 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:7`. **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 ×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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