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description: Every business, from a lemonade stand to a giant company, works on one simple sum: money in, minus money spent, equals profit, and if the answer is below zero, it is a loss. Who acts: business, answer. A sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 0

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Every business, from a lemonade stand to a giant company, works on one simple sum: money in, minus money spent, equals profit, and if the answer is below zero, it is a loss.

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**Who acts:** business, answer · **What happens:** work, spend, equal, be · **To what, where:** money, profit, loss

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money 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 (business, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:031-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss.lesson:0
# text = Every business, from a lemonade stand to a giant company, works on one simple sum: money in, minus money spent, equals profit, and if the answer is below zero, it is a loss.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 031-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	minus	minus	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	equals	equal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	below	below	ADV	RB	_	40	advcl	_	_
35	zero	zero	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	dep	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | every business from a lemonade stand to a giant company |  |  |  |  | on one simple sum | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sum=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **equal** | present | every business from a lemonade stand to a giant company *not said here* | profit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | below *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | answer | a loss |  |  |  |  | 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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:031-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-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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