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title: Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest. After a year,… — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest. After a year, what will he have? Test 8 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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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# Test 8 · Taking care of your things and money

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Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest. After a year, what will he have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, savings account · **What happens:** keep, pay, have · **To what, where:** savings account, interest

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This is test 8 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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/37-things-and-money/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:1
# text = Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	compound	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Ben |  |  | a savings account |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent $=Theme in account=Location |
| 2 | **pay** | present | a savings account | interest |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset |

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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:* After a year, what will he have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:2
# text = After a year, what will he have?
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | Ben |  |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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A little more than $50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:o1:1
# text = A little more than $50
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twice as much, $100, after one year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:o2:1
# text = Twice as much, $100, after one year
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Exactly $50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:o3:1
# text = Exactly $50
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	$	$	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Less than $50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t8:o4:1
# text = Less than $50
1	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	$	$	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
```

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

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