--- title: The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A school fair is a small business day: every stall has costs, takings and, if it is planned well, a profit that go --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / The school fair, famous companies and… # The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss Lesson 32 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/0/) — A school fair is a small business day: every stall has costs, takings and, if it is planned well, a profit that goes to a good cause. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/1/) — Picture Year 5's cake stall: parents baked the cakes for free, so 40 cakes at 50p bring in £20 and all of it is profit for the school. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/2/) — Giant companies started small too: Apple, the famous story goes, began with two young men in a garage and now sells phones to the whole world; big companies are often owned by thousands of people who each hold small pieces called shares. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/3/) — Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting, but no sick pay, long hours, and often a loss in the first year before any profit comes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/4/) — Every stall and shop needs the same check: will the money in be more than the money out? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/5/) — Fundraising is collecting money for a good cause; when things are donated, all the money taken is profit for the cause, like 40 × 50p = £20. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/6/) — A guessing game at 20p a go with 60 players takes 60 × 20p = £12; if the jar of sweets cost £3, it raises £12 − £3 = £9. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/7/) — Unit cost is the cost of making one item: thread at £2 for 10 bracelets is £2 ÷ 10 = 20p each. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/8/) — Margin is the profit on each item: a bracelet sold for £1 that cost 20p makes 80p, so 10 sold make 10 × 80p = £8. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/9/) — A company is a business, and its founder is the person who started it; many famous companies, such as Apple, started small, and Apple was reported to have over 100,000 workers. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/10/) — A share is a small piece of a company; owning 1 share out of 100 means owning 1 hundredth of it, and a shareholder gets a part of the profits. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/11/) — Self-employed people work for themselves; a week off ill can mean £0 that week, while an employed worker often gets sick pay. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/12/) — A start-up is a new business; many lose money at first, like costs of £20,000 and takings of £15,000, a loss of £5,000. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/13/) — To break even means money in equals money out, so there is no profit and no loss; a business with costs of £20,000 that takes £20,000 breaks even, and if takings grow to £28,000 it makes £8,000 profit. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/14/) — A tuck shop with costs of £10 and takings of £18 makes £8 profit, which is £2 each for 4 children, or £8 for charity. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/15/) — Small businesses often need very long hours: a corner shop open 7 days for 12 hours a day is open 84 hours a week. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/16/) — If prizes cost more than the money taken, a stall is loss-making: 20 players at 50p bring £10, and prizes of £15 mean a loss of £5. - ← previous: [The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/) - next →: [Adverts and how they work on you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)