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Tense: tense

Tense should only occur on verbs in French, with one of the four following values: Past, Pres, Fut or Imp.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 4 different values: Fut, Imp, Past, Pres.

38874 tokens (10%) have a non-empty value of Tense. 7042 types (17%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Tense. 2014 lemmas (6%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Tense. The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/VERB (30379; 8% instances), fr-pos/AUX (8492; 2% instances), fr-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances).

VERB

30379 fr-pos/VERB tokens (84% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Tense.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Tense co-occurred: Number=Sing (23211; 76%), Gender=EMPTY (19102; 63%), VerbForm=Fin (17492; 58%), Mood=Ind (16941; 56%), Person=3 (16752; 55%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Tense:

Paradigm êtrePresFutPastImp
Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partété
Mood=Cnd|Number=Sing|Person=1|VerbForm=Finserais
Mood=Cnd|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finserait
Mood=Cnd|Number=Plur|Person=1|VerbForm=Finserions
Mood=Cnd|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Finseriez
Mood=Cnd|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finseraient
Mood=Imp|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Finsoyez
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|VerbForm=Finsuisétais
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|VerbForm=Fines
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finest, esrserafutétait
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|VerbForm=Finsommesétions
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Finêtesserez
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsontserontfurentétaient
Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsoitfût
Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Finsoyez
Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsoient
VerbForm=Partétant, Etant

AUX

8492 fr-pos/AUX tokens (95% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Tense.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Tense co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (7519; 89%), Mood=Ind (7123; 84%), Person=3 (7076; 83%), Number=Sing (6533; 77%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Tense:

Paradigm êtrePresFutPastImp
Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partété
Mood=Cnd|Number=Sing|Person=1|VerbForm=Finserais
Mood=Cnd|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finserait
Mood=Cnd|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finseraient
Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2|VerbForm=Finsois
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|VerbForm=Finsuisétais
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finestserafutétait
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|VerbForm=Finsommesétions
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Finêtesserez
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsont, sonserontfurentétaient
Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsoitfût
Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|VerbForm=Finsoient
VerbForm=Partétant

NOUN

3 fr-pos/NOUN tokens (0% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Tense.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Tense co-occurred: Number=Sing (2; 67%), Gender=Fem (2; 67%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Tense:

Relations with Agreement in Tense

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Tense: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (1973; 74%), VERB –[appos]–> VERB (3; 60%), AUX –[conj]–> AUX (2; 67%), VERB –[compound]–> VERB (1; 100%), VERB –[mark]–> VERB (1; 100%).


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