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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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lead_up to vs lead_up_to #100

Open esmanning opened 4 years ago

esmanning commented 4 years ago

Abruptly, without anything to LEAD UP TO it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his problem, he demanded: "A sheep -- if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?" Little Prince chapter 7 sent_id = lpp_1943.291

We couldn't decide whether to analyze this as LEAD_UP[MWE] TO[GOAL], or a single MWE LEAD_UP_TO.

nschneid commented 4 years ago

Or it could be LEAD UP_TO, or no strong MWE at all—maybe weak MWEs: LEAD\~UP\~TO

Can "to it" be dropped—"Without anything to lead up, and as if the question..."? If so that would suggest UP is more closely tied to LEAD than to TO.

UP can be dropped without much effect on the meaning. It's hard for me to tell whether it's making more of an aspectual contribution to LEAD, or a (metaphoric) spatial contribution to TO.

There are idiomatic senses of UP_TO (the guidelines has "If we have survived up_to now", i.e. until), but this may be the freely combining UP that can precede source/path/goal PPs: "He walked up from the river, through the trees and out towards the barn".

Without strong evidence I'd probably default to treating these as compositional, with UP as Direction and TO as Goal.