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

Requires: lemma, pos

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