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title: A fixed-term account locks savings away for a set time but pays more… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: A fixed-term account locks savings away for a set time but pays more: 4% on £100 is £4, compared with 2% on £100, which is £2, in an ordinary account. Who acts: term account. A sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Interest on savings and cash machines, sentence 13

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A fixed-term account locks savings away for a set time but pays more: 4% on £100 is £4, compared with 2% on £100, which is £2, in an ordinary account.

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**Who acts:** term account · **What happens:** fix, lock away, pay, compare, be · **To what, where:** savings, more, ordinary account, 2

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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 (term account), 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:13
# text = A fixed-term account locks savings away for a set time but pays more: 4% on £100 is £4, compared with 2% on £100, which is £2, in an ordinary account.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	nmod	_	_
21	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	nmod	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	nmod	_	_
32	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	acl:relcl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lock away** | present | a term account | savings |  |  | time | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | present | a term account *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |
| 4 | **compare** | participle | a term account *not said here* |  |  | a ordinary account |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with %=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | 2 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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