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Requesting documention of generic pronouns in AMR Dictionary #187

Open nschneid opened 8 years ago

nschneid commented 8 years ago

In #17 it was agreed that generic "one" should be annotated as person. I assume the same should apply for generic "you".

kevincrawfordknight commented 8 years ago 
1) can we tell?
2) you -> person, just like "one" (if sure)
3) retrofitting needed?
timjogorman commented 8 years ago

Edge cases for discussion:

ambiguous out of context: If you are determined to go on, they will help. If you are experiencing dry mouth and take a multivitamin stop the vitamin immediately before you ruin your health irreversibly.

anyone-reading-this you: I can't seem to find someone with that 'connection' if you know what i'm saying.

nschneid commented 8 years ago

Some "you" examples from a child-directed speech transcript:

  1. that's a terribly small horse for you to ride .
  2. why don't you look at some of the toys in the basket .
  3. does he walk like you or does he go hop hop hop ?
  4. if you look out the other window maybe you'll see it .
  5. not the kind you hit but the kind you kick .
  6. why don't you take that over and show it to him .
  7. you don't have anything else to put in the box do you ?

These all seem unambiguous to me: as I understand them, only (5) is generic "you".

I think I'm in favor of encouraging the use of person for "you" or "one" if it's CLEARLY generic. But I don't know if this is a high priority for retrofitting; it could just be a guidelines clarification for the future.