--- title: Time words are clues: "yesterday" needs the past, "tomorrow" the fut… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: Time words are clues: "yesterday" needs the past, "tomorrow" the future, so "Yesterday I will go to the zoo" is broken, like a clock running backwards. Who acts: Time words, yesterday, I, clock. 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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 (Time words, yesterday, I, clock), 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:3 # text = Time words are clues: "yesterday" needs the past, "tomorrow" the future, so "Yesterday I will go to the zoo" is broken, like a clock running backwards. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 21 Yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 35 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | Time words | clues | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | yesterday | the past and the tomorrow future | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot past=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | I | | | the zoo | yesterday | like a clock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to zoo=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **break** | present · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **run** | gerund | a clock *not said here* | | | | | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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. **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:3`. **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, 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: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/2/) - next →: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/)