setence:The student talks.So the verb is "talks".And we can also know when the action happens ,the verb"talks" is present trense.A verb indicates number.The noun is "student"(singular)so the verb will +s(talk+s+talks).
If we change the sentense to :The students talk.The noun "students"is plural.So we don't need to +s.
This is called Subject-verb agreement:the verb should agree in number with the subject.