Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 18
Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental tense slip.
Who acts: Reading, your · What happens: read, be, hear, work · To what, where: work, quickest way, accidental tense slip
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 (Reading, your), 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 | Reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 way | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 work | nmod:poss |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obj |
| 4 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 1 Reading | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hear | mark |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slip | det |
| 12 | accidental | accidental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slip | amod |
| 13 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slip | compound |
| 14 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hear | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | your work | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Reading | the quickest way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | a accidental tense slip | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer slip=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | work | your | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:18.
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): no change. 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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