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title: What would happen if Grace left her money in for many more years at… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Grace left her money in for many more years at the same rate? Test 4 · ★★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Interest on savings and cash machines

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen if Grace left her money in for many more years at the same rate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grace · **What happens:** happen, leave · **To what, where:** money, same rate

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money 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/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t4:1
# text = What would happen if Grace left her money in for many more years at the same rate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Grace | Grace's money |  | the same rate | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme at rate=Location |

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

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It would grow faster and faster, because of interest on interest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t4:o1:1
# text = It would grow faster and faster, because of interest on interest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  |  | because interest on interest; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would shrink back to £100 after a while

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t4:o2:1
# text = It would shrink back to £100 after a while
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink back** | would | It |  |  |  | while |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to £=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would stop growing after two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t4:o3:1
# text = It would stop growing after two years
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would grow by exactly £10 every year for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t4:o4:1
# text = It would grow by exactly £10 every year for ever
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by £=Location |

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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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