ToVDSR YAML source
code: ToVDSR
mfte_code:
- ToVDSR
- ToVSTNCall
name: To-clause after desire verb
definition: To-clause preceded by a verb of desire.
normalization: finite_verbs
detection:
- source: mfte
requires:
- lemma
- pos
words:
- agree
- agreed
- agreeing
- agrees
- choose
- chooses
- choosing
- chose
- chosen
- decide
- decided
- decides
- deciding
- hate
- hated
- hates
- hating
- hesitate
- hesitated
- hesitates
- hesitating
- hope
- hoped
- hopes
- hoping
- intend
- intended
- intending
- intends
- like
- liked
- likes
- liking
- love
- loved
- loves
- loving
- mean
- meaning
- means
- meant
- need
- needed
- needing
- needs
- plan
- planned
- planning
- plans
- prefer
- preferred
- preferring
- prefers
- prepare
- prepared
- prepares
- preparing
- refuse
- refused
- refuses
- refusing
- want
- wanted
- wanting
- wants
- wish
- wished
- wishes
- wishing
parts:
p1:
cql: '[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]'
anchor: 1
p2:
cql: '[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [] [pos="VB.*"]'
anchor: 1
combine: "p1 | p2"
description: >-
Desire verb + to + verb base form. MFTE has three variants (lines
1404-1406): (1) verb+to+verb, (2) verb+to+X+verb (intervening token),
(3) verb+"na"+verb (wanna contraction). Pattern 2 catches cases like
"hesitate to to kill" where preprocessing introduces doubled tokens.
sources:
- biber_2006
- mfte
examples:
- text: want to
- text: hope to