Interest on savings and cash machines, sentence 14

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 · What happens: rise, buy, become, cost · To what, where: % interest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» 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 (prices, savings, 100 toy), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 rise	mark
2	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rise	nsubj
3	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 buy	advcl
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 rise	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 interest	case
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rise	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rise	punct
8	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 buy	nsubj
9	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 buy	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 buy	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 interest	case
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 %	nummod
14	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	15 interest	compound
15	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 becomes	obl
16	£	£	SYM	_	18 becomes	nsubj
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 £	nummod
18	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 buy	parataxis
19	£	£	SYM	_	18 becomes	xcomp
20	102	102	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 £	nummod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 costs	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 costs	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 toy	det
24	£	£	SYM	_	25 100	compound
25	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 toy	nummod
26	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 costs	nsubj
27	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 toy	acl
28	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 %	nummod
29	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	27 rising	obj
30	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 becomes	conj
31	£	£	SYM	_	30 costs	obj
32	104	104	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 £	nummod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 buy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	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, 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.

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