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title: A loss is when costs are bigger than the money made: 6 cups at 50p i… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: A loss is when costs are bigger than the money made: 6 cups at 50p is £3, and £3 − £5 = −£2, a loss of £2. Who acts: costs. 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 and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 7

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A loss is when costs are bigger than the money made: 6 cups at 50p is £3, and £3 − £5 = −£2, a loss of £2.

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**Who acts:** costs · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** money

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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 (costs), 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:7
# text = A loss is when costs are bigger than the money made: 6 cups at 50p is £3, and £3 − £5 = −£2, a loss of £2.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	ccomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
17	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod:unmarked
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	parataxis	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	conj	_	_
24	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	−	−	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
28	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	29	case	_	_
29	−	−	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	£	£	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	£	£	SYM	$	_	34	nmod	_	_
37	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | present | costs |  |  |  |  | than the money; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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