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title: Identify the nature of interest paid upon a savings account. — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the nature of interest paid upon a savings account. Exam question 1 of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 1 · Pocket money, saving and spending

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Identify the nature of interest paid upon a savings account.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, pay · **To what, where:** nature, interest

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e1:1
# text = Identify the nature of interest paid upon a savings account.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	compound	_	_
10	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the nature of interest |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nature=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | interest *not said here* |  |  |  | upon a savings account | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The price of opening a money box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e1:o1:1
# text = The price of opening a money box
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund | the price *not said here* | a money box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A charge for withdrawing one's money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e1:o2:1
# text = A charge for withdrawing one's money
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	withdrawing	withdraw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | gerund | a charge *not said here* | one's money |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A tax upon pocket money levied by the government each year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e1:o3:1
# text = A tax upon pocket money levied by the government each year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	levied	levy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **levy** | participle |  | a tax upon pocket money *not said here* |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Extra money paid by a bank for keeping money with it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e1:o4:1
# text = Extra money paid by a bank for keeping money with it
1	Extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | Extra money *not said here* |  |  |  | by a bank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  | with money | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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