Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 9

The simple past ("I ate") tells about a finished action, often with a time: "I ate at six."

Who acts: simple past, Lancashire gran · What happens: eat, tell, finish · To what, where: simple past, six · 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 (simple past, Lancashire gran), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 past	det
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 past	amod
3	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 past	acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 action	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 action	det
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 action	amod
14	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 often	punct
16	often	often	ADV	_	10 tells	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ate	nsubj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ate	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 six	case
25	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 ate	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	the simple past = past	the simple past not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	the simple past			time	about a finished action; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about action=Topic
3	finish	participle						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	eat in a quote	past	a Lancashire gran = gran		six			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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. 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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