Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 16

"I seen it" is common in speech in many places; the standard forms are "I saw it" or "I have seen it".

Who acts: Time words, standard forms · What happens: see, be · To what, where: writing, speech · 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 (Time words, standard forms), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 common	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 speech	case
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 common	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 places	amod
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 speech	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forms	det
15	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forms	amod
16	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 common	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 saw	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	obj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	participle	Time words such yesterday = word	writing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	present			speech in many places	common property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the standard forms			see property	tree rules
4	see in a quote	present · perfect	Time words such yesterday = word	writing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:16.

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, 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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