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title: Taste is personal: Gen Z might call a song "bussin'" (really good) o… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taste is personal: Gen Z might call a song "bussin'" (really good) or say it "ate and left no crumbs" (did it perfectly), a sister may call it "mid" (average), and a Ukrainian dad, "tato", may say "back in my day" about his old rock band; nobody is wrong about liking things. Who acts: Taste, Gen Z, 
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 4

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Taste is personal: Gen Z might call a song "bussin'" (really good) or say it "ate and left no crumbs" (did it perfectly), a sister may call it "mid" (average), and a Ukrainian dad, "tato", may say "back in my day" about his old rock band; nobody is wrong about liking things.

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**Who acts:** Taste, Gen Z, sister, Ukrainian dad, nobody · **What happens:** be, call, say, leave, do, like · **To what, where:** song, crumbs, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taste, Gen Z, sister, Ukrainian dad), 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:4
# text = Taste is personal: Gen Z might call a song "bussin'" (really good) or say it "ate and left no crumbs" (did it perfectly), a sister may call it "mid" (average), and a Ukrainian dad, "tato", may say "back in my day" about his old rock band; nobody is wrong about liking things.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×7, R7-rel-agree ×6
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bussin	bussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ate	ate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:parataxis
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
44	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	advcl	_	_
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
50	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:compound
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
53	tato	tato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=57:nsubj
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
56	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
59	back	back	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=57:obl
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
64	about	about	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
66	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
67	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=62:nmod
69	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	72	punct	_	_
70	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	72	nsubj	_	_
71	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	_
72	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	parataxis	_	_
73	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
74	liking	like	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	72	advcl	_	_
75	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	74	obj	_	_
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Taste |  |  |  |  | personal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | might | Gen Z | a song |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Gen Z *not said here* | song |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | Gen Z *not said here* | no crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past |  | song |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **call** | may | a sister | song |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a Ukrainian dad |  |  |  |  | about dad's old rock band | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **like** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×7, R7-rel-agree ×6. **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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