Value pres

The value present applies to the values ind, sub, impr, cond, inf and part.

D e s c r i p t i o n E x a m p l e s

vf-m=ind essi amano/pres   studiare

vf-m=sub che egli ami/pres   studiare, e' indubbio

vf-m=impr ama/pres   il prossimo tuo!

vf-m=cond egli amerebbe/pres   andare via

vf-m=inf e' facile amare/pres   uno come te

vf-m=part ormai amanti/pres   le cose piacevoli

vf-m=ger amando/pres   i piaceri della vita

It should be noted here that, depending on particular classes of lexical verbs, some forms of the paradigm of indicative, subjunctive and imperative are perfectly omograph: i.e.

ami can be either indicative or subjunctive;
ama can be either indicative or imperative.

This fact is crucial at the level of tagging, where the disambiguation is difficult by automatic means and different strategies can be chosen (Monachini and Calzolari 1995 and Bel, Calzolari and Monachini 1995): (i) all the possible interpretations can be maintained in the tag, (ii) an `underspecified' tag can be used, i.e. a tag collapsing the information of mood (and, in some cases, of person too), (iii) the verb-form can be manually disambiguated (see e.g. the experience within ELSNET, Corazzari and Monachini 1995).