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title: Picture a chorus you have hummed for three days: that is an earworm,… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a chorus you have hummed for three days: that is an earworm, and almost everyone gets them; it is harmless and fades. Who acts: you, that, everyone, chorus. A sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school wi
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 2

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Picture a chorus you have hummed for three days: that is an earworm, and almost everyone gets them; it is harmless and fades.

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**Who acts:** you, that, everyone, chorus · **What happens:** picture, hum, be, get, fade · **To what, where:** chorus, earworm, rules

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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 (you, that, everyone, chorus), 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:2
# text = Picture a chorus you have hummed for three days: that is an earworm, and almost everyone gets them; it is harmless and fades.
# 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): no change
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hummed	hum	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earworm	earworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a chorus |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent chorus=Theme |
| 2 | **hum** | present · perfect | you | a chorus *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chorus=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | a earworm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | everyone | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | chorus |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fade** | present | chorus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:005-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms.lesson:2`.

**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.

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

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