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Conversational implicatures/pragmatics #186

Open nschneid opened 8 years ago

nschneid commented 8 years ago

I have been asked whether AMR seeks to encode pragmatics. It seems to me that the guidelines document could use a bit of elaboration on that front.

The AMR Dictionary has an example of a request phrased as a question:

What about clear recommendations posed as questions? By analogy to the above, I would guess:

Are we agreed on this solution? And should the guidelines explain (and illustrate with :polite + examples) that we opt for a nonliteral reading if there is a clear pragmatics?

nschneid commented 7 years ago

Encountered this again. It seems that "Why not ...?" is a common formula for recommendations.