Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 11
In a piece of writing, keep the same tense unless the time really changes; "I was tired, so I'm going to bed" changes on purpose, because the bed is now.
Who acts: you, time, simple past, bed · What happens: keep, change, be, go, bed · To what, where: same tense, piece, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the english 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 (you, time, simple past, bed), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 piece | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 writing | case |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tense | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tense | amod |
| 10 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 11 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 changes | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changes | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 changes | advmod |
| 15 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tired | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tired | cop |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 changes | csubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 going | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tired | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bed | mark |
| 27 | bed | bed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 going | xcomp |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 29 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 purpose | case |
| 31 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changes | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 is | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 now | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bed | det |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 now | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 now | cop |
| 37 | now | now | ADV | _ | 29 changes | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the same tense | a piece of writing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tense=Theme in piece=Location | |||
| 2 | change a condition, not said to happen | present | the time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the simple past = past | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the simple past = past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bed in a quote | to-infinitive | the simple past = past not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | change | present | purpose | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | the bed | now property | tree rules |
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:english:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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