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title: AI tools can make music from a text request; who owns AI music and w… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: AI tools can make music from a text request; who owns AI music and whether the tools were trained fairly are argued about, and in 2024 major record labels reportedly sued some AI music companies. Who acts: AI tools, major record labels. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recordin
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 16

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AI tools can make music from a text request; who owns AI music and whether the tools were trained fairly are argued about, and in 2024 major record labels reportedly sued some AI music companies.

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**Who acts:** AI tools, major record labels · **What happens:** make, own, train, argue, sue · **To what, where:** music, text request, AI music, tools, 2024

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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 (AI tools, major record labels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:16
# text = AI tools can make music from a text request; who owns AI music and whether the tools were trained fairly are argued about, and in 2024 major record labels reportedly sued some AI music companies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.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 ×2
1	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
2	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	_	14	compound	_	_
14	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl
21	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nummod
29	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
32	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sued	sue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
35	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	_	36	compound	_	_
36	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | can | AI tools | music |  | a text request |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset music=Product from request=Material |
| 2 | **own** | present |  | AI music |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot music=Theme |
| 3 | **train** | past · passive |  | the tools |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **sue** | past | major record labels | 2024 |  |  |  | reportedly *property* | 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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**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 ×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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