The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 0
Every business, from a lemonade stand to a giant company, works on one simple sum: money in, minus money spent, equals profit, and if the answer is below zero, it is a loss.
Who acts: business, answer · What happens: work, spend, equal, be · To what, where: money, profit, loss
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» 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 (business, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 business | det |
| 2 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 works | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 stand | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stand | det |
| 6 | lemonade | lemonade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | compound |
| 7 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 business | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 company | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 company | amod |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 business | punct |
| 13 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sum | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sum | nummod |
| 16 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sum | amod |
| 17 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 works | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 money | punct |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sum | appos |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 money | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 money | punct |
| 22 | minus | minus | CCONJ | _ | 23 money | cc |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 money | conj |
| 24 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 money | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 profit | punct |
| 26 | equals | equal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 money | conj |
| 27 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 equals | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 loss | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 loss | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 below | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 answer | det |
| 32 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 below | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 below | cop |
| 34 | below | below | ADV | _ | 40 loss | advcl |
| 35 | zero | zero | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 below | dep |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 below | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 loss | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 loss | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 loss | det |
| 40 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 works | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | every business from a lemonade stand to a giant company | on one simple sum | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spend | participle | money not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | equal | present | every business from a lemonade stand to a giant company not said here | profit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the answer | below property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | answer | a loss | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:money:031-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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.
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