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title: Cost is the money spent to make something; revenue, or takings, is t… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: Cost is the money spent to make something; revenue, or takings, is the money from selling; profit is revenue minus cost. Who acts: Cost, revenue, profit. A sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 5

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Cost is the money spent to make something; revenue, or takings, is the money from selling; profit is revenue minus cost.

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**Who acts:** Cost, revenue, profit · **What happens:** be, spend, make, sell · **To what, where:** money, something, revenue cost

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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 (Cost, revenue, profit), 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:5
# text = Cost is the money spent to make something; revenue, or takings, is the money from selling; profit is revenue minus cost.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cost	cost	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	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	takings	taking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	minus	minus	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Cost | the money minus revenue cost |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | participle |  | the money minus revenue cost *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | revenue or takings | the money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sell** | gerund | revenue or takings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | profit | revenue cost |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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