have-rel-role-91 -- tricky cases

[uhermjakob]

Generally, the new frame have-rel-role-91 has greatly improved our AMRs. I noticed a few tricky cases, some with inconsistent annotations.

Here are my proposals, which we can discuss at our AMR phone meeting tomorrow.

Case 1: my ex

John still loves his ex.
(l / love-01
  :ARG0 (p / person :name (n / name :op1 "John"))
  :ARG1 (p2 / person
           :ARG0-of (h / have-rel-role-91
                      :ARG1 p
                      :ARG2 (s / significant-other)
                      :time (e / ex))))

Proposal: We "hallucinate" the concept significant-other, a term that would cover all of husband, wife, domestic partner, boyfriend, girlfriend.

This would allow us to better follow existing precedent for terms such as ex-husband that use :time ex:

Mary's ex-husband John
(p / person :name (n / name :op1 "John")
  :ARG0-of (h / have-rel-role-91
             :ARG1 (p2 / person :name (n2 / name :op1 "Mary"))
             :ARG2 (h2 / husband)
             :time (e / ex)))

Note: Some annotators have used have-rel-role-91 :ARG2 ex.

Case 2: my baby

Mary's baby cried.
(c / cry-02
  :ARG0 (b / baby
          :ARG0-of (h / have-rel-role-91
                     :ARG1 (p / person :name (n / name :op1 "Mary"))
                     :ARG2 (c2 / child))))

We use baby as the entity type and child as the relational role. Similarly: his girl

Case 3: my partner

John met his partner online.
(m / meet-02
  :ARG0 (p / person :name (n / name :op1 "John"))
  :ARG1 (p2 / person
           :ARG1-of (p3 / partner-01
                       :ARG0 p))
  :medium (o / online))

Proposal: Follow general preference to use existing verb frames.

Alternative: use have-rel-role-91 :ARG2 partner, as for girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse. But it might be hard to separate a partner in the sense of a significant-other from the business partner in a narrow sense (co-owner or co-manager of a company) or in a wider sense (cooperation of two businesses).

Case 4: my family

Mary's family is very poor.
(p / poor
  :degree (v / very)
  :domain (f / family
            :ARG1-of (h / have-org-role-91
                       :ARG0 (p2 / person :name (n / name :op1 "Mary"))
                       :ARG2 (m / member))))

Proposal: Use have-org-role-91/member construction. ("Mary is a member of the family.")

Alternatives: :part, :consist-of, have-rel-role-91

[uhermjakob]

At the AMR phone meeting on May 6, 2014, we decided to accept the proposals for cases 1, 2, and 4.

For case 3, we decided to annotate partner using have-rel-role-91 for partner for the sense boyfriend/girlfriend etc., otherwise we will use partner-01.

Examples added to AMR Dict.