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vinna illmennskuverk #290

Open einarfs opened 13 years ago

einarfs commented 13 years ago

Would you say that "verk" in "vinna verk" is cognate object (and hence, NP-OB2)? Or, is the only cognate object possible with the verb "vinna", the noun "vinna"?

The sentence I am dealing with is "Hallgrímur vinnur hvert illmenskuverkið á fætur öðru"

See PPCEME guidelines: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/annotation/syn-const.htm#ob2_with_cognate_object_verbs

eirikurr commented 13 years ago

As I understand it, cognate objects are those that do not add anything to the meaning of the verb, and are often the only possible objects of their governing verbs. If that is the case, "illmennskuverkið" would hardly be classified as a cognate object. But I might be wrong ...

joelcw commented 13 years ago

I think that is correct: "verk" does not seem to be a cognate object there. But in any case, I think "verk" is an NP-OB1 there.

But note: in the documentation, the cognate object is not labeled NP-OB2; any other object is labeled NP-OB2, but the cognate object would be labeled NP-OB1. Thus, in "I help you", "you" is labeled NP-OB2 because it is not the cognate object. If the cognate object were present, it would be "I helped you some help", in which case "some help" would be NP-OB1.