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title: Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly. Who acts: cities, legal walls, paintings. 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 tr
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 8

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Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.

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**Who acts:** cities, legal walls, paintings · **What happens:** have, call, allow, change · **To what, where:** legal walls, free walls, graffiti · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cities, legal walls, paintings), 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:8
# text = Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	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 | some cities | legal walls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | legal walls *not said here* | free walls |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **allow** | present · passive |  | graffiti |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **change** | present | the paintings |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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