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adjectives: predicative or attributive? #52

Open omriabnd opened 5 years ago

omriabnd commented 5 years ago

If "convenient" is treated as the main scene in "Such a convenient location, with a coffee shop around the corner", would that also be the case for:

dotdv commented 5 years ago

I can contribute what I understood were our conclusions from previous discussions: In the case of 'it' and 'this': It_A 's_S [[such_D a convenient_S (location)_A]_E location_C, [with]_E]_A This_A is_S [[such_D a convenient_S (location)_A]_E location_C, [with]_E]_A But without them: Such_D a_F convenient_S [restaurant_C [with]_E]_A Such_D a_F convenient_S [place_C [to grab a sandwich]_E, [with]_E]_A If I try to apply this logic on the example where it is nice and also convenient, I'm not sure what to do with the Relative clause: [Such_D a_F niceS]{H-}, [convenient_S (such)D (restaurant)_A (Relative clause missing) ]_H [[Chinese_E restaurant_C, [with]_E]A]{-H} If the "nice and convenient" example opened with 'this' I think it should have been: this_A is_S [a_F [nice_S (restaurant)]_E [convenient_S (restaurant)_A]_E Chinese_E restaurant_C [with]_E]

nschneid commented 5 years ago

OK, so part of the challenge is the lack of an overt copula to pin the main scene on, which is why an adjective is chosen.

Ultimately I think the predication ("This is") is implicit. But I realize an implicit S may not be ideal.

In any case, it would be good for the guidelines to explain the policy so that annotators don't start using a soft notion of "emphasis" as the criterion for whether an attributive adjective should be the main scene-evoker.