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title: The stock market is a place where people buy and sell shares, which… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: The stock market is a place where people buy and sell shares, which are little bits of real companies; if the company does well, its share price tends to rise, and if it does badly, it falls. Who acts: stock market, people, shares, company. A sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simp
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# Crypto and the stock market, simply, sentence 0

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The stock market is a place where people buy and sell shares, which are little bits of real companies; if the company does well, its share price tends to rise, and if it does badly, it falls.

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**Who acts:** stock market, people, shares, company, share price, price · **What happens:** be, buy, sell, do, tend, rise · **To what, where:** place, shares, little bits

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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 (stock market, people, shares, company), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:038-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply.lesson:0
# text = The stock market is a place where people buy and sell shares, which are little bits of real companies; if the company does well, its share price tends to rise, and if it does badly, it falls.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 038-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
39	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | the stock market | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | present | people *not said here* | shares |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shares | little bits |  |  |  | of real companies | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the company |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tend** | present | market's share price |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rise** | to-infinitive | market's share price *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | price |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **fall** | present | price |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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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**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): no change. **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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