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title: Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secre… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics
description: Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secret; his stencils often joke about war, money and power. Who acts: Banksy, stencils. 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
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# Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 9

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Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secret; his stencils often joke about war, money and power.

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**Who acts:** Banksy, stencils · **What happens:** be, keep, joke · **To what, where:** British street artist, name

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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 (Banksy, stencils), 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:9
# text = Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secret; his stencils often joke about war, money and power.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Banksy	Banksy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	stencils	stencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	joke	joke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Banksy | a British street artist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | name and face |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | name's stencils |  |  |  |  | about war and money and power; often *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about war=Topic |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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