Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 12
Time words such as yesterday, now and tomorrow must agree with the tense of the verb.
Who acts: Time words · What happens: agree
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 (Time words), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | compound |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 yesterday | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 now | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | _ | 11 agree | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agree | cc |
| 9 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 agree | aux |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tense | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tense | det |
| 14 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agree | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 verb | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 verb | det |
| 17 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tense | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | must | Time words such yesterday | now | with the tense of the verb | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with tense=Co-Agent |
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:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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