--- title: If prices rise faster than interest, savings buy less: at 2% interes… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics description: If prices rise faster than interest, savings buy less: at 2% interest £100 becomes £102, but a £100 toy rising 4% costs £104. Who acts: prices, savings, 100 toy. 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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 (prices, savings, 100 toy), 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:14 # text = If prices rise faster than interest, savings buy less: at 2% interest £100 becomes £102, but a £100 toy rising 4% costs £104. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 9 nsubj _ _ 9 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 £ £ SYM $ _ 18 nsubj _ _ 17 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 18 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 £ £ SYM $ _ 18 xcomp _ _ 20 102 102 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 compound _ _ 25 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 30 obj _ _ 32 104 104 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | prices | | | | | than interest; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **buy** | present | savings | | | | | less *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | present | | | | % interest | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | a 100 toy *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location %=Theme | | 5 | **cost** | present | a 100 toy | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value | 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:money:027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Interest on savings and cash machines, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/13/) - next →: [Interest on savings and cash machines, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/)