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title: A savings account pays a little interest, told as "£2 for every £100… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be… · tree and pragmatics
description: A savings account pays a little interest, told as "£2 for every £100 a year": £250 earns £5 in a year. Who acts: savings account. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★, sentence 9

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A savings account pays a little interest, told as "£2 for every £100 a year": £250 earns £5 in a year.

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**Who acts:** savings account · **What happens:** pay, tell, earn · **To what, where:** little interest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:9
# text = A savings account pays a little interest, told as "£2 for every £100 a year": £250 earns £5 in a year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	compound	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obl	_	_
13	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
17	100	100	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	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	nsubj	_	_
23	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	obj	_	_
26	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | present | a savings account | a little interest |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | a savings account *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **earn** | present |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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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:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:9`.

**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 ×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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