ToVMNTL To-clause after mental verb
Definition
To-clause preceded by a mental verb.
Detection Rules
Verb from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (59 items)
adjudicate
adjudicates
assume
assumed
assumes
assuming
believe
believed
believes
believing
consider
considered
considering
considers
expect
expected
expecting
expects
find
finding
finds
forget
forgets
forgetting
forgot
forgotten
found
imagine
imagined
imagines
imagining
judge
judged
judges
knew
know
knowing
known
knows
learn
learning
learns
learnt
presume
presumed
presumes
presuming
pretend
pretended
pretending
pretends
remember
remembered
remembering
remembers
suppose
supposed
supposes
supposing
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
believe to
consider to
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version