--- title: Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christma… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!" Which tense is "have grown"? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 31 «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Tense consistency and verb forms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Tense consistency and verb forms Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!" Which tense is "have grown"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** chuff, mean, grow, be · **To what, where:** tense · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 31 «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:1 # text = Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!" 1 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 16 since since ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **chuff** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | pleased *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | | | | since Christmas | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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. *Sentence 2:* Which tense is "have grown"? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:2 # text = Which tense is "have grown"? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 tense tense NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | which tense | | | | grow *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Simple future ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:o1:1 # text = Simple future 1 Simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Present perfect ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:o2:1 # text = Present perfect 1 Present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Past progressive ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:o3:1 # text = Past progressive 1 Past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 progressive progressive NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Present progressive ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms:t10:o4:1 # text = Present progressive 1 Present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 progressive progressive NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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