--- title: To break even means money in equals money out, so there is no profit… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: profit, business, takings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (profit, business, takings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:13 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 equals equal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 out out ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 profit profit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 costs cost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 nmod _ _ 26 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 28 obj _ _ 30 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 31 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 takings taking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 £ £ SYM $ _ 37 obl _ _ 40 28,000 28,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 £ £ SYM $ _ 42 obj _ _ 44 8,000 8,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 flat _ _ 45 profit profit NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 flat _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | money | | | | in equals money | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot money=Theme in money=Attribute | | 3 | **does** | present | no profit and no loss | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | a business with costs | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 5 | **break** | present | a business with costs | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | takings | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** | present | profit | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material £=Product | 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. **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:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:13`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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