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title: What would happen if everyone downloaded songs only from pirate sites? — The songs on everyone's phone: streami… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if everyone downloaded songs only from pirate sites? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 2 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

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What would happen if everyone downloaded songs only from pirate sites?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** happen, download · **To what, where:** songs, pirate sites

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t2:1
# text = What would happen if everyone downloaded songs only from pirate sites?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	downloaded	download	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **download** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone | songs |  | pirate sites |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Musicians would get paid nothing for their songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t2:o1:1
# text = Musicians would get paid nothing for their songs
1	Musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Musicians | nothing |  |  |  | for Musicians's songs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for song=Source |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** |  | Musicians *= musician* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The songs would sound better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t2:o2:1
# text = The songs would sound better
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | the songs |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change for anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t2:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change for anyone
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for anyone | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Musicians would get much richer, because more people would listen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t2:o4:1
# text = Musicians would get much richer, because more people would listen
1	Musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Musicians |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **listen** | would | more people |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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