---
language:
- fr
- en
multilinguality:
- multilingual
viewer: false
license: cc-by-4.0
---

> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/4068283


## Description
This dataset contains parallel English and French texts from the Europarl corpus (Koehn, 2005).

The files provide alignments of EN and FR verbs along with information on their position, tense and voice and can therefore be used in translational studies for these languages and/or the training of translation systems that can make use of the labels in this resource.

Although the resource was created semi-automatically, the verb alignment and inferred tenses are of high precision, especially in the second file contained in the package:

Tense-Annotation-full.txt : complete alignment.

Tense-Annotation-gold.txt : alignments only for cases where there is an EN /and/ an FR tense that was inferred from the verbs.


The format in the two files is the following:

EN sentence  
FR sentence  
Position_in_EN    \tab    EN_verb1    \tab    EN_tense    \tab    EN_voice    \tab    FR_verb    \tab    FR_tense    \tab    FR_voice  
Position_in_EN    \tab    EN_verb2    \tab    EN_tense    \tab    EN_voice    \tab    FR_verb    \tab    FR_tense    \tab    FR_voice 

EN sentence  
FR sentence  
Position_in_EN    \tab    EN_verb1    \tab    EN_tense    \tab    EN_voice    \tab    FR_verb    \tab    FR_tense    \tab    FR_voice  

...


The following is an explanation on the labels used:

EN_tense:  
past_perf_cont = Past Perfect Continuous  
past_perf = Past Perfect  
past_cont = Simple Past Continuous  
sim_past = Simple Past  
pres_perf = Present Perfect  
pres_perf_cont = Present Perfect Continuous  
pres_perf = Present Perfect  
pres_cont = Present Continuous  
pres = Present  
fut_perf_cont = Future Perfect Continuous  
fut_perf = Future Perfect  
fut_cont = Future Continuous  
fut = Future  
cond_perf_cont = conditional verb group with in continuous past tense  
cond_perf = conditional verb group in past tense  
cond_cont = conditional verb group in continuous present tense  
cond = conditional verb group in present tense  
infinitif = base verb form  
no_tag = tense not found  

EN_voice:  
active, passive, unknown  

FR_tense:  
pres = présent  
passe_comp = passé composé  
imparfait = imparfait  
plus_que_parf = plus-que-parfait  
passe_sim = passé simple  
passe_rec = passé récent  
passe_ant = passé antérieur  
imperatif = impératif  
subjonctif = subjonctif  
conditionnel = conditionnel  
futur_proche = futur proche  
futur = futur  
futur_ant = futur antérieur  
no_tag = tense not found  

FR_voice:  
active, passive, unknown  

@ = unaligned words


## Citation
```
Popescu-Bellis, A., & Meyer, T. (2020). Tense-Annotation [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.34777/gwvx-hk96
```