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Conditional auxiliary бы #4

Open dan-zeman opened 7 years ago

dan-zeman commented 7 years ago

I believe it should be tagged AUX, it should have the feature Mood=Cnd and it should be attached to the main verb via the aux relation. Currently it uses the discourse relation, which seems wrong to me.

msklvsk commented 7 years ago

By the way, what about cases when бы is attached to an adverb or a particle?

хотя бы несколько грамм — discourse(хотя, бы)? где бы ты ни был — discourse(где, бы) or should it be aux(был, бы)?

dan-zeman commented 7 years ago

If бы has to be attached to хотя then it is probably fixed rather than discourse. I would tend to avoid attaching the auxiliary to хотя; it could be also analyzed as an ellipsis (missing verb). But I am not sure what is the best solution here. More thinking should be devoted to this.

The other example seems easier. The adverb где is the (nonverbal) predicate and был is copula. For such cases the UD guideline is that additional auxiliaries are attached directly to the nonverbal predicate, rather than to the copula. So it should be aux(где, бы) and cop(где, был).

olesar commented 7 years ago

agreed. We will fix both cases.