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Test 5 · Cards, banks and apps

Grandad puts £1000 in savings and leaves it there 30 years, never taking the interest out. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: put, leave, not take out, happen · To what, where: savings, it, interest

This is test 5 of lesson 7 «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Grandad puts £1000 in savings and leaves it there 30 years, never taking the interest out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	£	£	SYM	_	2 puts	obj
4	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 £	nummod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 savings	case
6	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 puts	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaves	cc
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaves	obj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 leaves	advmod
11	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leaves	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 taking	advmod
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 puts	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 interest	det
17	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	15 taking	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	Grandad			savings			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent £=Theme in savings=Destination
2	leave	present	Grandad not said here	it		there	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not take out	gerund	Grandad not said here	the interest					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It grows by the same small amount, and no more, every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	7 amount	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 amount	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amount	amod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amount	amod
7	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 more	det
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It				year	by the same small amount	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by amount=Location

Option 2

It shrinks every year because the bank takes big fees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrinks	nsubj
2	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shrinks	obl:unmarked
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 takes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrinks	advcl
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fees	amod
10	fees	fee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	It				year		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	take	present	the bank	big fees					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Theme

Option 3

It stays at £1000 because savings never grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 stays	obl
5	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
7	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 grow	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 grow	advmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at £=Location
2	not grow	present	savings						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It grows faster and faster as interest earns interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 faster	cc
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 faster	conj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 earns	mark
7	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earns	nsubj
8	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	advcl
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	earn	present	interest	interest					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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