Test 4 · ★★ · Interest on savings and cash machines

What would happen if Grace left her money in for many more years at the same rate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: money, same rate

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 left	mark
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 money	nmod:poss
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 years	case
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 rate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rate	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rate	amod
17	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	Grace	Grace's money		the same rate	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme at rate=Location

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would grow faster and faster, because of interest on 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	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 faster	cc
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 interest	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 interest	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 interest	case
12	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 interest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					because interest on interest; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would shrink back to £100 after a while

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	3 shrink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 shrink	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 £	case
6	£	£	SYM	_	3 shrink	obl
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink back	would	It				while		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to £=Result

Option 3

It would stop growing after two years

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	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund					year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would grow by exactly £10 every year for ever

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 £	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 £	advmod
6	£	£	SYM	_	3 grow	obl
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 grow	obl

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

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