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:duration vs. :age #57

Closed uhermjakob closed 11 years ago

uhermjakob commented 11 years ago

I have noticed that some annotators have been using the role :duration for cases like the one below. I think that :age is more appropriate, even for non-biological entities. In a sense, :age is a special case of :duration ("duration of existence to date"). In particular, unlike :duration, :age includes the notion that the temporal-quantity of its entity keeps increasing as it continues to age.

"They lobbied Congress to repeal the 15-year-old law."

(l / lobby-01
  :ARG0 (t / they)
  :ARG1 (r / repeal-01
          :ARG0 g
          :ARG1 (l2 / law
                   :age (t2 / temporal-quantity :quant 15
                           :unit (y / year))))
  :ARG2 (g / government-organization :name (n / name :op1 "Congress")))
nschneid commented 11 years ago

My understanding is that the "N-year-old" or "N years old" construction should automatically imply :age. Can the editor do this?

uhermjakob commented 11 years ago

Consensus. Good point, Nathan.