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title: In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money. Where did the extra $2 come from? Test 9 · ★★ 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 opti
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

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In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money. Where did the extra $2 come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** grow, add, do, come · **To what, where:** savings account, money

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:1
# text = In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	compound	_	_
4	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	$	$	SYM	$	_	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	$	$	SYM	$	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	102	102	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
17	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present |  |  |  | a savings account | year | without anyone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in account=Location |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where did the extra $2 come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:2
# text = Where did the extra $2 come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Interest paid by the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:o1:1
# text = Interest paid by the bank
1	Interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | Interest *not said here* |  |  |  | by the bank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The money grew by itself in the vault

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:o2:1
# text = The money grew by itself in the vault
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the money |  |  | the vault |  | by money | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A mistake by the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:o3:1
# text = A mistake by the bank
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mistake** |  | the bank |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: by=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A tax refund

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t9:o4:1
# text = A tax refund
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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