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title: A children's savings account grows with regular saving: £20 a month… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: A children's savings account grows with regular saving: £20 a month is £240 a year and £2,400 in 10 years, plus some interest. Who acts: savings account, children. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 10

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A children's savings account grows with regular saving: £20 a month is £240 a year and £2,400 in 10 years, plus some interest.

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**Who acts:** savings account, children · **What happens:** grow, account

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (savings account, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:10
# text = A children's savings account grows with regular saving: £20 a month is £240 a year and £2,400 in 10 years, plus some interest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	compound	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
8	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obj	_	_
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	parataxis	_	_
17	240	240	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	parataxis	_	_
22	2,400	2,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a children's savings account |  |  |  |  | with regular saving | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **account** |  | a children |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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