--- title: A cover is a new performance of someone else's song; covers are norm… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics description: A cover is a new performance of someone else's song; covers are normal, and when they are released, the songwriters are named and paid. Who acts: cover, covers, someone. 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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 (cover, covers, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:6 # text = A cover is a new performance of someone else's song; covers are normal, and when they are released, the songwriters are named and paid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 performance performance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 else else ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 11 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 covers cover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 songwriters songwriter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a cover | a new performance | | | | of someone's song | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | covers | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **release** | present · passive | | shapes *= shape* | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source | | 4 | **name** | present · passive | | the songwriters | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sing** | | someone | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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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