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title: Number one means a song was bought, streamed or played most that wee… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Number one means a song was bought, streamed or played most that week; it shows popularity, not quality, and many songs critics love never reached number one. Who acts: Number, Billboard, critics. A sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of the arts course
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# Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 15

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Number one means a song was bought, streamed or played most that week; it shows popularity, not quality, and many songs critics love never reached number one.

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**Who acts:** Number, Billboard, critics · **What happens:** mean, buy, stream, play, show, love · **To what, where:** song, popularity, many songs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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 (Number, Billboard, critics), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:15
# text = Number one means a song was bought, streamed or played most that week; it shows popularity, not quality, and many songs critics love never reached number one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Number |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** | past · passive |  | a song |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **show** | present | Billboard | popularity and quality |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent popularity=Recipient |
| 6 | **love** | present | critics | many songs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **reach** | participle · passive |  | many songs |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary number=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 ×2, 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.

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