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title: When you keep money in a savings account, the bank pays you a little… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: When you keep money in a savings account, the bank pays you a little extra called interest, a thank-you for letting it use your money for a while. Who acts: you, bank. A sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Interest on savings and cash machines, sentence 0

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When you keep money in a savings account, the bank pays you a little extra called interest, a thank-you for letting it use your money for a while.

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**Who acts:** you, bank · **What happens:** keep, pay, call, let, use · **To what, where:** money, savings account, extra called interest, you, bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» 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 (you, bank), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.lesson:0
# text = When you keep money in a savings account, the bank pays you a little extra called interest, a thank-you for letting it use your money for a while.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	compound	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **keep** | present | you | money |  | a savings account |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in account=Location |
| 2 | **pay** | present | the bank | a extra called interest and a thank | you |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient interest=Asset |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | gerund | you | bank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | infinitive | bank *not said here* | your money |  |  | while |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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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:027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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