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title: Nothing is truly free: free apps are paid for by adverts, pirate sit… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing is truly free: free apps are paid for by adverts, pirate sites pay musicians nothing and can hide viruses, and blasting headphones can damage your hearing for good. Who acts: Nothing, adverts, pirate sites, blasting headphones. A sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: streami
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 3

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Nothing is truly free: free apps are paid for by adverts, pirate sites pay musicians nothing and can hide viruses, and blasting headphones can damage your hearing for good.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, adverts, pirate sites, blasting headphones, your · **What happens:** be, pay, hide, blast, damage, hear · **To what, where:** free apps, nothing, musicians, viruses, hearing

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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 (Nothing, adverts, pirate sites, blasting headphones), 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:3
# text = Nothing is truly free: free apps are paid for by adverts, pirate sites pay musicians nothing and can hide viruses, and blasting headphones can damage your hearing for good.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	iobj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	blasting	blast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | free, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present · passive | adverts | free apps |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 3 | **pay** | present | pirate sites | nothing | musicians |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent musician=Recipient nothing=Asset |
| 4 | **hide** | can | pirate sites *not said here* | viruses |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Patient |
| 5 | **blast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **damage** | can | blasting headphones | your hearing |  |  |  | for good | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument hearing=Patient |
| 7 | **hear** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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