--- title: Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti,… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti, a kind of vandalism; the council pays to clean it, and that money comes from everyone. Who acts: council, money. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Our street against theirs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) / 15 # Our street against theirs, sentence 15 Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti, a kind of vandalism; the council pays to clean it, and that money comes from everyone. **Who acts:** council, money · **What happens:** paint, be, pay, clean, come · **To what, where:** words, bus stop, council, everyone This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday 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 (council, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:15 # text = Painting words on a bus stop or wall without permission is graffiti, a kind of vandalism; the council pays to clean it, and that money comes from everyone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Painting paint VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 nsubj _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 graffiti graffiti NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 vandalism vandalism NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | gerund | | words | | a bus stop or wall | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on stop=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | without permission graffiti | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | present | the council | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clean** | to-infinitive | the council *not said here* | council | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **come** | present | that money | | | everyone | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from everyone=Initial\_Location | 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:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:15`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Our street against theirs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/14/) - next →: [Our street against theirs, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/)