VPRT Present tense
Definition
Verbs in present tense (VBP + VBZ combined).
Detection Rules
cql[pos="VBP|VBZ"]
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
It’s ours.
Source: le_foll_2024
Who doesn’t love it?
Source: le_foll_2024
I know.
Source: le_foll_2024
Sources
- biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
- pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
Notes
Fourth-highest loading on D1.