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title: What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup? — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

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What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** happen, charge

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t2:1
# text = What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Sam and Ava |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location £=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They'd make £100 for sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t2:o1:1
# text = They'd make £100 for sure
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Everybody would buy more, because it's fancier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t2:o2:1
# text = Everybody would buy more, because it's fancier
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fancier	fancier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | would | Everybody | more |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | fancier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lemons would get cheaper to buy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t2:o3:1
# text = The lemons would get cheaper to buy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the lemons |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the lemons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hardly anyone would buy, and they could take less money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t2:o4:1
# text = Hardly anyone would buy, and they could take less money
1	Hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | would | anyone |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | could | they | less money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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