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title: Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental te… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental tense slip. Who acts: Reading, your. A sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 18

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Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental tense slip.

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**Who acts:** Reading, your · **What happens:** read, be, hear, work · **To what, where:** work, quickest way, accidental tense slip

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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 (Reading, your), 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:18
# text = Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental tense slip.
# 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): no change
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	quickest	quick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | your work |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Reading | the quickest way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | a accidental tense slip |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer slip=Stimulus |
| 4 | **work** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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