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title: Streaming services such as Spotify are reported to pay roughly a fra… — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Streaming services such as Spotify are reported to pay roughly a fraction of a penny per play, split between the label, the songwriters and the artist; going to shows or buying music straight from the artist is reported to help them far more. A sentence of the lesson «The songs on everyone's phone: 
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 7

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Streaming services such as Spotify are reported to pay roughly a fraction of a penny per play, split between the label, the songwriters and the artist; going to shows or buying music straight from the artist is reported to help them far more.

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**What happens:** report, pay, split, go, buy, help · **To what, where:** Streaming services, fraction, shows, music, artist, services

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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: 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:7
# text = Streaming services such as Spotify are reported to pay roughly a fraction of a penny per play, split between the label, the songwriters and the artist; going to shows or buying music straight from the artist is reported to help them far more.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	Spotify	Spotify	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fraction	fraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	per	per	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	songwriters	songwriter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
35	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **report** | present · passive |  | Streaming services such Spotify |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | a fraction of a penny |  |  |  | per play | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Asset |
| 3 | **split** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | between the label and the songwriters and the artist | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | shows |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to show=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **buy** | gerund |  | music |  | the artist |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent music=Theme from artist=Source |
| 6 | **report** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V what S\_INF»: clause=Theme |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive |  | services *= service* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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