Tenses: past, present and future, sentence 16
The future continuous is "will be" plus an -ing verb: "I will be swimming at 3 o'clock tomorrow".
Who acts: British speakers · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: 3 o'clock
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tenses: past, present and future» of the language 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 (British speakers), 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 | 2 future | det |
| 2 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 future | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 future | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 will | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 future | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 " | cop |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 will | punct |
| 9 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 13 verb | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 verb | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ing | punct |
| 12 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 verb | compound |
| 13 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 " | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 swimming | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swimming | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 swimming | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 swimming | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 swimming | aux |
| 19 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 verb | appos |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 o'clock | case |
| 21 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 o'clock | nummod |
| 22 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swimming | obl |
| 23 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swimming | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swimming | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 future | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | future property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | future · progressive | British speakers = speaker | 3 o'clock | tomorrow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Trajectory |
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:language:008-tenses-past-present-future.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): 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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