--- title: Tense is the time a verb points to: "I walked" is past, "I walk" is… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: Tense is the time a verb points to: "I walked" is past, "I walk" is present, and "I will walk" talks about the future. Who acts: Tense, verb, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tense, verb, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:0 # text = Tense is the time a verb points to: "I walked" is past, "I walk" is present, and "I will walk" talks about the future. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tense tense NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 7 points point VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 30 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tense | the time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **point to** | present | a verb | the time *not said here* | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | | 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | I | the time *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | past *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | present *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **walk** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **talk** | present | | | | | | about the future | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about future=Topic | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Relative clauses, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/24/) - next →: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/)