Cards, banks and apps, sentence 14
Compound interest means you earn interest on the interest, so savings grow faster over many years, and unpaid debts grow the same way.
Who acts: Compound interest, you, savings, unpaid debts · What happens: mean, earn, grow · To what, where: interest, same way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life 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 (Compound interest, you, savings, unpaid debts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compound | compound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 interest | amod |
| 2 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 interest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 interest | det |
| 9 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interest | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 grow | advmod |
| 12 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 grow | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 years | amod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grow | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grow | cc |
| 20 | unpaid | unpaid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 debts | amod |
| 21 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grow | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Compound interest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | earn | present | you | interest | the interest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent interest=Theme on interest=Source | |||
| 3 | grow | present | savings | year | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | present | unpaid debts | the same way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Licence: CC 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:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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.
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