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title: Stock is the things a business keeps to sell or use; 20 lemons at 20… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: Stock is the things a business keeps to sell or use; 20 lemons at 20p cost £4, and if only 12 are used, the 8 that go bad waste 8 × 20p = £1.60. Who acts: Stock, business, things, 8. A sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of Mova's primary sch
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 16

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Stock is the things a business keeps to sell or use; 20 lemons at 20p cost £4, and if only 12 are used, the 8 that go bad waste 8 × 20p = £1.60.

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**Who acts:** Stock, business, things, 8 · **What happens:** be, keep, sell, use, go, waste · **To what, where:** things, cost, 12

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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 (Stock, business, things, 8), 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:16
# text = Stock is the things a business keeps to sell or use; 20 lemons at 20p cost £4, and if only 12 are used, the 8 that go bad waste 8 × 20p = £1.60.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nummod
17	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound
18	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	waste	waste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
36	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	_
38	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	7	obj	_	_
40	£	£	NOUN	GW	Number=Sing|Typo=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	1.60	1.60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	flat	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Stock | the things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | a business | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | the things *not said here* |  |  | cost |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at cost=Asset |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | 12 |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | present | the 8 |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **waste** | present | Stock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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