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title: Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a cop… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each play, shared between the record label, the songwriters and the artist, so one play earns the singer a fraction of a penny, not a pound. Who acts: Streaming, app, tiny amount, one play. A senten
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 0

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Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each play, shared between the record label, the songwriters and the artist, so one play earns the singer a fraction of a penny, not a pound.

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**Who acts:** Streaming, app, tiny amount, one play · **What happens:** mean, play, own, pay, share, earn · **To what, where:** music, internet, copy, tiny amount, singer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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 (Streaming, app, tiny amount, one play), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:005-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms.lesson:0
# text = Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each play, shared between the record label, the songwriters and the artist, so one play earns the singer a fraction of a penny, not a pound.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 005-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	songwriters	songwriter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:appos
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	fraction	fraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **mean** | present | Streaming |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | gerund | Streaming *not said here* | music |  | the internet |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | gerund | Streaming *not said here* | a copy |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot copy=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | present | the app | a tiny amount |  |  |  | for each play | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent amount=Asset for play=Theme |
| 5 | **share** | past | a tiny amount *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the record label and the songwriters and the artist | tree rules |
| 6 | **earn** | present | one play | the singer |  |  |  | a pound *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent singer=Beneficiary fraction=Theme |

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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, R6-punct-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.

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