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Can "but" alone trigger `:concession` (rather than `contrast-01`)? #199

Closed nschneid closed 7 years ago

nschneid commented 7 years ago

Some of my students annotated a sentence along the lines of: "I recommend them [business], but prepare to pay twice as much." It seems that this can be paraphrased with "although", "however", etc., which more explicitly indicate :concession. Is that sufficient or is contrast-01 the default for "but" as the sole connective? The Dictionary entry does not have an analogous example.

kevincrawfordknight commented 7 years ago

I like :concession okay. Annotating discourse is unfortunately still very "word-based" for AMR. If the sentence were "I recommend them; prepare to pay twice as much", we might be inclined to put "and", even if the author's intent is almost exactly the same.

kevincrawfordknight commented 7 years ago

Nathan: let's document or give examples with "but" Tim: Concession "but" is talked about in the literature