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title: Buying a share at £10 and selling at £12 gains £2; if it falls to £8… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: Buying a share at £10 and selling at £12 gains £2; if it falls to £8, the loss is £2. Who acts: Buying, price, loss. A sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simply» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crypto and the stock market, simply, sentence 6

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Buying a share at £10 and selling at £12 gains £2; if it falls to £8, the loss is £2.

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**Who acts:** Buying, price, loss · **What happens:** buy, sell, gain, fall, be · **To what, where:** share, £ 2

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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 (Buying, price, loss), 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:6
# text = Buying a share at £10 and selling at £12 gains £2; if it falls to £8, the loss is £2.
# 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	Buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	nmod	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	obl	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	compound	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obl	_	_
21	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	compound	_	_
27	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **buy** | gerund |  | a share |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent share=Theme at £=Asset |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at £=Asset |
| 3 | **gain** | present | Buying | £ 2 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | price |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to £=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the loss | £ 2 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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