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Approximator, distance-AWAY #35

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nschneid opened this issue Oct 1, 2018 · 26 comments
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Approximator, distance-AWAY #35

nschneid opened this issue Oct 1, 2018 · 26 comments
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nschneid commented Oct 1, 2018

"John lives about 3 miles away"

John_A lives_S [[about_E 3_E miles_C]_Q away_R]_A ?

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nschneid commented Oct 2, 2018

The original example I encountered actually had "to": something like "They moved to about 3 miles away".

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nschneid commented Oct 8, 2018

  • John lives 3 miles away from DC
    John_A lives_S [[3_E miles_C]_Q away_R from_R DC_C]_A
  • John lives 3 miles away
    John_A lives_S [[3_E miles_C]_Q away_R (IMP)_C]_A
  • John lives about 3 miles away
    John_A lives_S [[about_E 3_E miles_C]_Q away_R (IMP)_C]_A
  • John moved to about 3 miles away
    John_A moved_P [to_R [about_E 3_E miles_C]_Q away_R (IMP)_C]_A
  • The cat appeared from behind the couch
    appeared_P [from_R behind_R the_E couch_C]_A
  • cities north of DC
    cities_C [north_R of_R DC_C]_E
  • cities to the north of DC
    cities_C [to_R the_E north_R of_R DC_C]_E
  • cities to the north
    cities_C [to_R the_E north_R (IMP)_C]_E

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nschneid commented Oct 8, 2018

  • I ate [[between_E [3_E and_N 5_E]_C]_Q cookies]_A

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omriabnd commented Oct 8, 2018

Dotan, could you add this to the interesting examples section?

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nschneid commented Oct 8, 2018

"quantity modifiers, distances, and directions"

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dotdv commented Oct 9, 2018

Sure, added.
Small question regarding:

  1. appeared_P [from_R behind_R the_E couch_C]_A
  2. cities_C [north_R of_R DC_C]_E
    In the 'directions' section we haven't mentioned this option of marking two Rs, but only the option of a united UNA R in the case of a multiworded preposition.
    Do we want to add these solutions to the main section? if so how should we explain the difference between the options? For example "north of" seems to stand the test we use to define a mutliworded R: 'north' and 'of' can't be used separately in this phrase.
    Marking it two Rs can make sense to me, but I just want to understand whether it was marked differently on purpose.

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dotdv commented Oct 9, 2018

A different question regarding all the non-scene examples:
In the guidelines we say that "by convention, we place the Rs in non-Scene units as siblings of the Es, Qs and Cs they relate", so for example instead of "cities_C [north_R of_R DC_C]_E" according to the guidelines it should be:
cities_C north_R of_R DC_E

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

by convention, we place the Rs in non-Scene units as siblings of the Es, Qs and Cs they relate

Should there be an exception for coordinated modifiers?

"cities north of DC and south of Boston": cities_C [[north_R of_R DC_C]_C and_N [south_R of_R Boston_C]_C]_E ?

Regarding multiword prepositions, it is clear that some are fixed expressions and therefore UNA (e.g. "in front of", "next to"). By contrast, "from" can be stacked with a locative preposition in a motion scene: "the cat emerged from behind/next to/under/... the couch". I could go either way on cardinal direction + OF, e.g. "north of".

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

And what if there are multiple adnominal PPs? "the party on Saturday from 8 to midnight"

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

Oops, I forgot "party" was scene-evoking. Let's make it: "the house on Main Street between the school and the church"

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

You mean: the_E house_C on_R [Main Street]_E between_R [the_E school_C]_E and_N [the_E church_C]_E?

This leaves it unclear which R's go with which E's, which could be a problem for supersense alignment.

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

So "on" and "between" are at the same level even though they pertain to different elaborators. Is that going to cause problems?

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

But from a theoretical perspective, why associate the R with the "case-marked" expression under a scene, but not in a non-scene unit?

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

Oh, and not [two barrels]_Q [of_R smoked_E herring_C]_C because that would be a C within a C?

I wonder if the policy should be limited to "of" (and equivalent genitive/quantity markers in other languages). It feels weird for "the party on the street" and "the house on the street" to be so structurally different.

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

To put it another way: I don't think you'd ever have a preposition other than "of" followed by a C. So maybe the policy should be limited to C-relators as opposed to E/A/etc.-relators.

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jakpra commented Oct 9, 2018

For Quantities, I see why we don't necessarily want to group the R with the center. I think it should be
"[two barrels]_Q of_R smoked_E herring_C" right?

But if the pobj is an Elaborator, I agree with Nathan that it would be more intuitive and consistent and less ambiguous if it was
the_E house_C [on_R Main Street]_E [between_R [the_E school_C]_C and_N [the_E church_C]_C]_E

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nschneid commented Oct 9, 2018

What about "two types of smoked herring"? where "types" is not a C

But "herring" is a C, right? The policy would be that an R that marks a C (syntactically, "of" applies to "herring") should not form a nested unit, but R's marking E's, A's, etc. should.

I suspect this policy would actually be easier for annotators to remember.

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dotdv commented Oct 24, 2018

I went over the list of issues Jakob sent and it looks like the main open issue is how to deal with Rs. Apart from non-scene units, I think it will also help if we clarify how Rs should be marked when they pertain to a P/S (at the moment it's not mentioned at all in the guidelines).

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