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title: Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%." She puts in £3… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%." She puts in £300 — no, £200. How much interest after a year? Test 9 · ★★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Interest on savings and cash machines

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Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%." She puts in £300 — no, £200. How much interest after a year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, it · **What happens:** say, lock, pay, put in · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:1
# text = Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%."
1	Nina	Nina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nina's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lock** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=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:* She puts in £300 — no, £200.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:2
# text = She puts in £300 — no, £200.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put in** | present | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent £=Goal |

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*Sentence 3:* How much interest after a year?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:3
# text = How much interest after a year?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:o1:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:o2:1
# text = £8
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:o3:1
# text = £12
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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£204

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines:t9:o4:1
# text = £204
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	204	204	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

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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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