The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 4

Good businesses keep records of money in and out, agree how to share profit before they start, and do not buy more stock than they can use.

Who acts: Good businesses, money · What happens: keep, agree, share, start, not buy, use · To what, where: records, profit, more stock, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Good businesses, money), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 businesses	amod
2	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 records	nmod
7	in	in	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 out	cc
9	out	out	ADV	_	7 in	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 agree	punct
11	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 share	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 share	mark
14	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 agree	ccomp
15	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 share	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 start	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 start	nsubj
18	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 share	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 buy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 buy	cc
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 buy	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 buy	advmod
23	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 stock	amod
25	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buy	obj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 use	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 use	aux
29	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 buy	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	Good businesses	records of money	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	present	Good businesses not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	share not said to happen	to-infinitive		profit	tree rules
4	start	present	money		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	not buy	present · do-support	Good businesses not said here	more stock	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme
6	use	can	money		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	record			money	nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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