--- title: Ascertain the balance of a deposit of £100 after two years at ten pe… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the balance of a deposit of £100 after two years at ten per cent per annum, interest being compounded annually. Exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Interest on savings and cash machines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Interest on savings and cash machines Ascertain the balance of a deposit of £100 after two years at ten per cent per annum, interest being compounded annually. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, deposit · **What happens:** ascertain, compound, balance · **To what, where:** balance, ten per cent, interest This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money 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/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the balance of a deposit of £100 after two years at ten per cent per annum, interest being compounded annually. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 deposit deposit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 £ £ SYM $ _ 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 17 per per ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 annum annum NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 compounded compound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 23 annually annually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the balance of a deposit | | ten per cent per annum and interest | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Topic | | 2 | **compound** | gerund · passive | | interest *not said here* | | | | annually *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **balance** | | a deposit | | | | | | nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £110 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:e2:o1:1 # text = £110 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 110 110 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £120 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:e2:o2:1 # text = £120 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} £121 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:e2:o3:1 # text = £121 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 121 121 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:e2:o4:1 # text = £200 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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