diff --git a/doc/entities.md b/doc/entities.md index 02d0b3f..3f5405d 100644 --- a/doc/entities.md +++ b/doc/entities.md @@ -42,7 +42,15 @@ instance, not to describe a category of entities by their properties or relations to other entities. Thus _muzeum_ is not a name because it can be used to refer to any institution that meets certain parameters. The phrase _Národní muzeum_ is a name because it was specifically designed to label one -particular museum. The name does not have to be unique: An important museum +particular museum. + +> **proper name** ?= named entity (as "New Zealand" and "the United States of America")
+BUT "Zealand" or "America" are not proper names - why not?
+(confusing as Zealand is a Danish island and America may refer to the continent) + +> **proper noun** ?= common noun (as "museum") + +The name does not have to be unique: An important museum in another country may also be called _Národní muzeum_, just like there are multiple people called _John Smith_. People may have to add more information if misinterpretation is possible, but the intended purpose of a name is to diff --git a/doc/eventive-concepts.md b/doc/eventive-concepts.md index f7a31bb..98e4692 100644 --- a/doc/eventive-concepts.md +++ b/doc/eventive-concepts.md @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ Examples: > **RULE 1b:** > - **Stative verbs** should be annotated as events, even if not classified as processes. +[What are state verbs?](https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/what-are-state-verbs) + Examples: * (8a) [cs] *Moje kočka **nesnáší** granule.* * (8b) [en] *My cat **loves** wet food.* (from the UMR Guidelines)
@@ -101,7 +103,9 @@ Based on examples from the Guidelines: > **RULE 2a - limitation:** > - **relative clauses with lexical verb** (play, went, ...) considered as eventive concepts, but -> - **relative clauses falling under "non-verbal clauses"** considered as non-eventive concepts! +> - **relative clauses falling under "non-verbal clauses"** considered as non-eventive concepts! + +(see below for four semantic types of non-verbal clauses: possession, location, property, and object ... [guidelines, part 3-1-1-3](https://github.com/umr4nlp/umr-guidelines/blob/master/guidelines.md#part-3-1-1-3-states-and-entities) ) *** @@ -133,9 +137,13 @@ driver treated as an entity (ex.) but teacher as ARG0-of teach-01 (ex.) even in *I said [**that** the thorns **scratched** me]*. / the **[scratching of the thorns]** - ??? for event nominals - **?? OK** for generic mentions ... *war, storm, ceremony, válka, bouře*?? - - **!! NO** for specific mentions ... rather anchored in wikidata/wikipedie/ + - **!! NO** for specific mentions ... rather anchored in wikidata/wikipedie/ + **?? OR both as an entity AND as an event??** -Example: *válka na Ukrajině* ... ?? should be anchored to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110999040 +Examples: +* (6a) [cs] druhá světová válka
+ [en] WW II ... ?? should be anchored to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362 +* (6b) [cs] *válka na Ukrajině* ... ?? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110999040 ``` @@ -150,6 +158,10 @@ Example: *válka na Ukrajině* ... ?? should be anchored to https://www.wikidat ... see [the document on entities](https://github.com/ufal/UMR/blob/main/doc/entities.md) +Examples: + * (7a) [cs] Před 80 lety Německo přepadením Polska rozpoutalo druhou světovou válku.
+ * (7a) [en] 80 years ago, Germany started World War II by invading Poland. + **(2) non-PROCESSESS packed as predication:** - OK states in predication ... prototypically adjectives, but also other nominal modifiers as PPs, relative clauses, participles
*Those thorns **are sharp**.* @@ -161,11 +173,11 @@ Example: *válka na Ukrajině* ... ?? should be anchored to https://www.wikidat >RULE 4 >- non-eventive concepts should be linked to wiki -**(3) STATES:** +**(3) STATES in modification or reference:** - **??** states in reference ... what to do with them? (sharpness https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55433472 ) - **??** states in modification ... either without any mapping OR, contrary to the guidelines, as eventive concepts (being tall) -**(4) ENTITIES:** +**(4) ENTITIES in modification or reference:** - entities in reference (proototypical) - **??** for generic mention (*the sharp **thorns***) ... what to do with them? - **OK** for specific mentions (***Barack Obama***) @@ -182,7 +194,7 @@ Example: *válka na Ukrajině* ... ?? should be anchored to https://www.wikidat *** #### TO READ -- Croft (2001) ??? *Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective* +- Croft (2001) *Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective* - Pustejovsky et al. (2005) *The Specification Language TimeML*. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242423032_The_Specification_Language_TimeML About events expressed as MWE: