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title: One study reported that chewing gum may help a little with an earwor… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: One study reported that chewing gum may help a little with an earworm, and listening to the whole song to the end helps some people. Who acts: One study, gum, listening. A sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary scho
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 6

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One study reported that chewing gum may help a little with an earworm, and listening to the whole song to the end helps some people.

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**Who acts:** One study, gum, listening · **What happens:** report, chew, help, listen · **To what, where:** little, people

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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 (One study, gum, listening), 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:6
# text = One study reported that chewing gum may help a little with an earworm, and listening to the whole song to the end helps some people.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
6	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	earworm	earworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past | One study |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **chew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | may | gum | a little |  |  |  | with a earworm | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary with earworm=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  | to the end | to the whole song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present | listening |  | some people |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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