--- title: The simple present ("I run") is used for habits and things that are… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: The simple present ("I run") is used for habits and things that are generally true; the present progressive ("I am running") is for something happening right now. Who acts: Lancashire gran, things, present progressive. 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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 (Lancashire gran, things, present progressive), 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:6 # text = The simple present ("I run") is used for habits and things that are generally true; the present progressive ("I am running") is for something happening right now. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 generally generally ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 progressive progressive NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 appos _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 conj _ _ 34 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 right right ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 now now ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *in a quote* | present | a Lancashire gran *= gran* | the simple present *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme present=Trajectory | | 2 | **use** | present · passive | | the simple present | | | | for habits and things | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for habit=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | things | | | | | generally, true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a Lancashire gran *= gran* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the present progressive | | | | | for something | tree rules | | 6 | **happen** | gerund | | | | | now | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/5/) - next →: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/)