--- title: Money, shops and work in a town — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Money, shops and work in a town», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Before a loaf of bread reaches you, many people work on it: a farmer grows wheat, a miller grinds flour, a baker bakes, a driver delivers an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Money, shops and work in a town # Money, shops and work in a town Lesson 95 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/95-money-shops-work-town/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/0/) — Before a loaf of bread reaches you, many people work on it: a farmer grows wheat, a miller grinds flour, a baker bakes, a driver delivers and a shopkeeper sells — and each of them is paid from the price you pay. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/1/) — A shop buys goods cheaply in large amounts and sells them for a higher price; the difference must pay for rent, electricity and the workers' wages, and what is left is the shop's profit. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/2/) — Prices change with supply and demand: when many people want something and there is little of it, the price goes up; when there is plenty and few want it, the price goes down. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/4/) — Firefighters, teachers and street cleaners are often paid from taxes. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/5/) — Example: strawberries are cheap in summer when farms are full of them and expensive in winter, when few grow nearby and they must be brought from far away. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/6/) — Goods are things you can buy and hold; services are work that someone does for you. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/7/) — A wage or salary is the money a worker is paid for their work. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/8/) — Profit is the money a business has left after paying all its costs. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/9/) — Shops buy goods in large amounts from wholesalers, firms that sell in bulk to shops, and sell them at a higher price. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/10/) — When something is scarce, so there is little of it, and many people want it, its price usually rises. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/11/) — When there is plenty of something and few people want it, its price usually falls. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/12/) — A bank keeps money safe and may pay interest to people who save there. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/13/) — When you borrow money you usually have to pay back more than you borrowed; the extra is called interest. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/15/) — Taxes are money that people and businesses pay to the government to pay for things everyone shares, like schools and firefighters. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/16/) — Paying by card still spends real money from a bank account. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/17/) — Adverts are made to make people want to buy things. - ← previous: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/) - next →: [Laws, voting and how a country is run](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)