--- title: The progressive forms use a form of "be" plus a verb ending in -ing:… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: The progressive forms use a form of "be" plus a verb ending in -ing: "I am playing" (present), "I was playing" (past). Who acts: progressive forms, verb, Lancashire gran. 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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 (progressive forms, verb, Lancashire gran), 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:7 # text = The progressive forms use a form of "be" plus a verb ending in -ing: "I am playing" (present), "I was playing" (past). # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 progressive progressive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 be be NOUN NN _ 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 15 in in SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ing ing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . 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 | **use** | present | the progressive forms | a form be plus a verb | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent form=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **end** | gerund | a verb *not said here* | ing | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **play** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a Lancashire gran *= gran* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | past · progressive | a Lancashire gran *= gran* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/6/) - next →: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/)