NOUN/advmod troubles in EWT

[nschneid]

There are a number of NOUNs attached as advmod in EWT. Many of these look plausible, e.g. location modifier "somewhere" and extent modifier "eight kilometers". But others are problematic, especially where the noun has a case marker:

• advmod propagated as enhanced dependency in adverb+PP coordination. There are many of these, e.g.:
  • book a cruise online or by a travel agent
  • equipment was installed properly and on time
  • Where and to whom do you want it faxed?
• rate construction with "a"—once/twice a day/week—attach "once/twice" as case
  • GUM uses advmod(day, once), which seems better
• enhanced advmod extracted from relative clause
  • Number of days after taking office that Bush reneged on his campaign promise
    • acl:relcl(days, reneged) and advmod(reneged, days). Should the latter be obl:tmod(reneged, days)?
• "Bit/NOUN sketchy/ADJ"—"bit" is short for "a bit". Should it be ADV since it is functioning as one?

English-GUM, by contrast, has no instances of NOUNs attaching as advmod.

[amir-zeldes]

no instances of NOUNs attaching as advmod

We can thank @dan-zeman and the validator for that - we just went through all cases that did have that and changed them to something else for the previous release... Often obl:npmod