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title: If the price is too high, fewer people buy: 3 cups at £2 bring £6, b… — The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss · tree and pragmatics
description: If the price is too high, fewer people buy: 3 cups at £2 bring £6, but 20 cups at 50p bring £10. Who acts: price, fewer people. 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 ever
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 9

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If the price is too high, fewer people buy: 3 cups at £2 bring £6, but 20 cups at 50p bring £10.

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**Who acts:** price, fewer people · **What happens:** be, buy, bring · **To what, where:** 3 cups

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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, fewer people), 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:9
# text = If the price is too high, fewer people buy: 3 cups at £2 bring £6, but 20 cups at 50p bring £10.
# 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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	nmod	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	_
19	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	obj	_	_
29	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the price |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | present | fewer people | 3 cups but 20 cups at 50 p |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at £=Asset |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | fewer people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | fewer people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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