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title: A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it i… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them. Who acts: scientists, most people. A sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 5

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A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them.

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**Who acts:** scientists, most people · **What happens:** call, get · **To what, where:** song, scientists · **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 (scientists, most people), 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:5
# text = A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earworm	earworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	involuntary	involuntary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	imagery	imagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a song |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | present | scientists | song |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **get** | present | most people | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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