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# Test 6 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

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Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12." What's the profit now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sam, profit · **What happens:** keep, be · **To what, where:** notebook

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:1
# text = Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12."
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	takings	taking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Sam | a notebook |  |  |  | 50 p for a sign and takings *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=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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*Sentence 2:* What's the profit now?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:2
# text = What's the profit now?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the profit |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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£6.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:o1:1
# text = £6.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6.50	6.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£5.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:o2:1
# text = £5.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5.50	5.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:o3:1
# text = £7
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£7.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss:t6:o4:1
# text = £7.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7.50	7.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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