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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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make a mistake IN #118

Closed esmanning closed 2 years ago

esmanning commented 3 years ago

He made the most frightful noise that resounded all over the place, and I made four mistakes IN my addition. lpp_13 sent_id = lpp_1943.675

And never would they make a mistake IN the order of their entry upon the stage. lpp_16 sent_id = lpp_1943.928

There seems to be an ambiguity between IN modifying MAKE (Circumstance?) or IN modifying MISTAKE (Topic?)

nschneid commented 3 years ago

For STREUSLE purposes I'd say make+mistake is a light verb construction. But yes, there's a static concept of wrongness and there's an act of erring, and the IN-PP could be with respect to either. Is it made four mistakes when performing addition or made four addition mistakes / mistakes OF addition? Seems like one of those benign ambiguities where both interpretations work out to the same thing in the real world.

Mistake feels like a shell noun: it needs some sort of content which is the thing that was done wrong(ly). I think I would lean toward Topic. Circumstance makes it sound like the addition could be incidental background to the act of making a mistake, which is probably not the intention.

nschneid commented 2 years ago

Going with Topic (not too far from "excel IN something")