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title: The price matters too: at £2 a cup hardly anyone buys, at 50p lots d… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: The price matters too: at £2 a cup hardly anyone buys, at 50p lots do, and when the kid next door sells at 40p, customers drift away unless your lemonade is better. Who acts: price, anyone, p lots, kid. A sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course o
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 3

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The price matters too: at £2 a cup hardly anyone buys, at 50p lots do, and when the kid next door sells at 40p, customers drift away unless your lemonade is better.

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**Who acts:** price, anyone, p lots, kid, customers, lemonade · **What happens:** matter, buy, do, sell, drift away, be · **To what, where:** £ cup, 40 p

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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 (price, anyone, p lots, kid), 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:3
# text = The price matters too: at £2 a cup hardly anyone buys, at 50p lots do, and when the kid next door sells at 40p, customers drift away unless your lemonade is better.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	compound	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	drift	drift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | the price |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **buy** | present | anyone |  |  | a £ cup |  | hardly *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | p lots |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sell** | present | the kid |  |  | 40 p |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at p=Asset |
| 5 | **drift away** | present | customers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your lemonade |  |  |  |  | good *property* | 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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**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 ×1, 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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