Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 3

Time words are clues: "yesterday" needs the past, "tomorrow" the future, so "Yesterday I will go to the zoo" is broken, like a clock running backwards.

Who acts: Time words, yesterday, I, clock · What happens: be, need, go, break, run · To what, where: clues, past, zoo

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, yesterday, I, clock), 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	4 clues	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clues	cop
4	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 yesterday	punct
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 yesterday	punct
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clues	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 past	det
11	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 future	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tomorrow	punct
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 future	compound
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tomorrow	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 future	det
17	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 past	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 so	punct
21	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl:unmarked
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 zoo	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 zoo	det
27	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 broken	aux:pass
30	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 go	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 clock	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 clock	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 clock	det
34	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
35	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 clock	acl
36	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	35 running	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clues	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Time words	clues				tree rules
2	need	present	yesterday	the past and the tomorrow future				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot past=Theme
3	go in a quote	future	I		the zoo	yesterday	like a clock	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to zoo=Initial_Location
4	break	present · passive	I not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
5	run	gerund	a clock not said here				backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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