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title: Interest is usually written as a percentage, said "per cent", which… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: Interest is usually written as a percentage, said "per cent", which means "out of every 100": 3% means £3 for every £100, so when Ella leaves £100 for a year at 3% the bank adds £3, and she has £103. Who acts: per cent, Ella, bank. A sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» of 
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# Interest on savings and cash machines, sentence 1

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Interest is usually written as a percentage, said "per cent", which means "out of every 100": 3% means £3 for every £100, so when Ella leaves £100 for a year at 3% the bank adds £3, and she has £103.

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**Who acts:** per cent, Ella, bank · **What happens:** write, say, mean, leave, add, have · **To what, where:** Interest, per cent, 100 · **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 (per cent, Ella, 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:1
# text = Interest is usually written as a percentage, said "per cent", which means "out of every 100": 3% means £3 for every £100, so when Ella leaves £100 for a year at 3% the bank adds £3, and she has £103.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	obj	_	_
28	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	obl	_	_
32	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
38	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	obj	_	_
39	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
49	£	£	SYM	$	_	48	obj	_	_
50	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
55	£	£	SYM	$	_	54	obj	_	_
56	103	103	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | Interest |  |  |  | a percentage *obl*; usually *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | per cent |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cent=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | per cent | every 100 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 100=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot £=Theme for £=Attribute |
| 5 | **leave** | present | Ella |  |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent £=Theme at %=Location |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the bank |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | present | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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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**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. **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.

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