Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 5
Tense shows when something happens: past, present or future.
Who acts: Tense, something · What happens: show, happen · To what, where: past
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 (Tense, something), 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 | Tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 happens | advmod |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | advcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 past | punct |
| 7 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happens | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
| 9 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 past | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 future | cc |
| 11 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Tense | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | something | past and present or future | 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:5.
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): R7-rel-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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