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title: Good businesses keep records of money in and out, agree how to share… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: Good businesses keep records of money in and out, agree how to share profit before they start, and do not buy more stock than they can use. Who acts: Good businesses, money. A sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of Mova's primary school with 
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 4

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Good businesses keep records of money in and out, agree how to share profit before they start, and do not buy more stock than they can use.

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**Who acts:** Good businesses, money · **What happens:** keep, agree, share, start, not buy, use · **To what, where:** records, profit, more stock, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Good businesses, money), 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:4
# text = Good businesses keep records of money in and out, agree how to share profit before they start, and do not buy more stock than they can use.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	businesses	business	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **keep** | present | Good businesses | records of money |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Good businesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | profit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **start** | present | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **buy** | present · do-support | Good businesses *not said here* | more stock |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme |
| 6 | **use** | can | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **record** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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