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title: If prizes cost more than the money taken, a stall is loss-making: 20… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: prizes, stall, 20 players. A sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money course of Mova's primary school w
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# The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 16

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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.

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**Who acts:** prizes, stall, 20 players · **What happens:** cost, take, be, bring, mean · **To what, where:** more, money, loss

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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 (prizes, stall, 20 players), 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:16
# text = 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.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	making	making	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	obj	_	_
24	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
27	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	nmod	_	_
30	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
31	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	£	£	SYM	$	_	33	nmod	_	_
36	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 | **cost** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | prizes | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 2 | **take** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | a stall |  |  |  |  | making *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | 20 players at 50 p |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | prizes | a loss |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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