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title: To diversify is to spread your money around; an index fund invests i… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: To diversify is to spread your money around; an index fund invests in many companies at once, so £100 spread over 100 companies puts £1 in each, and one company going bust loses only £1. Who acts: index fund, one company. A sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simply» of the money co
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# Crypto and the stock market, simply, sentence 14

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To diversify is to spread your money around; an index fund invests in many companies at once, so £100 spread over 100 companies puts £1 in each, and one company going bust loses only £1.

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**Who acts:** index fund, one company · **What happens:** be, spread around, invest, spread, put, go · **To what, where:** money, many companies, 100 companies, each

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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 (index fund, one 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:14
# text = To diversify is to spread your money around; an index fund invests in many companies at once, so £100 spread over 100 companies puts £1 in each, and one company going bust loses only £1.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	diversify	diversify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	invests	invest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	nsubj	_	_
22	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	obj	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	acl	_	_
37	bust	bust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
38	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	£	£	SYM	$	_	38	obj	_	_
41	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | diversify *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread around** | to-infinitive |  | your money |  |  |  | around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |
| 3 | **invest** | present | a index fund |  |  | many companies |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spread** | participle |  |  |  | 100 companies |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over company=Location |
| 5 | **put** | present |  |  |  | each |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent £=Theme in each=Destination |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | one company *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lose** | present | one company |  |  |  |  | bust *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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