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# Test 11 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

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What would happen to the profit if they sold 20 cups at 50p but the costs went up to £8?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, costs · **What happens:** happen, sell, go up · **To what, where:** 20 cups, 50 p

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t11:1
# text = What would happen to the profit if they sold 20 cups at 50p but the costs went up to £8?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to the profit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | they | 20 cups |  | 50 p |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at p=Asset |
| 3 | **go up** | past | the costs |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Profit would stay at £5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t11:o1:1
# text = Profit would stay at £5
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | Profit |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at £=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would make a loss of £8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t11:o2:1
# text = They would make a loss of £8
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | They | a loss |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loss=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Profit would rise to £18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t11:o3:1
# text = Profit would rise to £18
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | would | Profit |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to £=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Profit would fall to £2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t11:o4:1
# text = Profit would fall to £2
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | Profit |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to £=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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