The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss, sentence 9

If the price is too high, fewer people buy: 3 cups at £2 bring £6, but 20 cups at 50p bring £10.

Who acts: price, fewer people · What happens: be, buy, bring · To what, where: 3 cups

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 (price, fewer people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 high	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 high	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 buy	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 buy	punct
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buy	nsubj
10	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 cups	punct
12	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 cups	nummod
13	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buy	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 £	case
15	£	£	SYM	_	13 cups	nmod
16	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cups	conj
18	£	£	SYM	_	17 bring	obj
19	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 £	nummod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cups	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 cups	cc
22	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 cups	nummod
23	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cups	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 p	case
25	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 p	nummod
26	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cups	nmod
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cups	xcomp
28	£	£	SYM	_	27 bring	obj
29	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 £	nummod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 buy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the price		high property	tree rules
2	buy	present	fewer people	3 cups but 20 cups at 50 p		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at £=Asset
3	bring	infinitive	fewer people not said here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme
4	bring	infinitive	fewer people not said here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×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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