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title: A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used. — The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playli… · tree and pragmatics
description: A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used. Who acts: royalty, makers. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms, sentence 8

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A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used.

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**Who acts:** royalty, makers · **What happens:** be, pay, use, work · **To what, where:** money, work

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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 (royalty, makers), 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:8
# text = A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:root
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is a** | present | a royalty | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  | to music makers | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | makers's work |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | makers *= maker* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «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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**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:8`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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