Fin-tense

Detect sentences tenses.

Installation

``
npm i --save fin-tense
`

Usage

`typescript
import * as Fin from "finnlp";
import "fin-tense";

const sentence = "He was demonstrably wrong."
const instance = new Fin.Run(sentence);
const result = instance.tense();
console.log(result);

`

The above example would give:

`javascript
[
["past","simple"]
]
`

Supported Tenses Types:

- ["present","simple"] Examples:
- I work in a bank
- I don't work in a bank
- ["present","progressive"] Examples:
- She's cooking
- She's not cooking
- Is she working
- ["past","simple"] Examples:
- I cooked
- I didn't cook
- What did you cook?
- ["past","progressive"] Examples:
- She was working
- Wasn't she working
- What was she working on?
- ["present","perfect","simple"] Examples:
- I have finished it
- Haven't I finished it
- When have she finished working?
- ["present","perfect","progressive"] Examples:
- I have been learning english for a long time
- They haven't been playing tennis for a long time
- How ling have they been learning english
- ["past","perfect","simple"]
- They had already met sarah before
- They hadn't met sarah
- Had they met sarah yet?
- ["past","perfect","progressive"] Examples:
- I had been living in germany for years
- How long had you been living here?
- ["future","simple","(going)"] Examples:
- They are going to see me
- Are they going to see me
- When are they going to see me
- ["future","simple"] Examples:
- They will see me
- Will they see me
- When will they see me
- They won't see me
- ["future","progressive"] Examples:
- I will be having fun
- Will I be having fun
- How will I be having fun?
- ["future","perfect","simple"]
- They will have met me by then.
- They won't have met me by then
- ["future","perfect","progressive"]`
- They will have been working with John next week
- How long will they have been working with John next week?

How to interpret the tenses?

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