--- title: Compound interest means you earn interest on the interest, so saving… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics description: Compound interest means you earn interest on the interest, so savings grow faster over many years, and unpaid debts grow the same way. Who acts: Compound interest, you, savings, unpaid debts. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Compound interest, you, savings, unpaid debts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:14 # text = Compound interest means you earn interest on the interest, so savings grow faster over many years, and unpaid debts grow the same way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Compound compound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 5 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 unpaid unpaid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 debts debt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Compound interest | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **earn** | present | you | interest | | the interest | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent interest=Theme on interest=Source | | 3 | **grow** | present | savings | | | | year | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | unpaid debts | the same way | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cards, banks and apps, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/13/) - next →: [Cards, banks and apps, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/)