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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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Age as Characteristic #140

Closed aryamanarora closed 2 years ago

aryamanarora commented 3 years ago

छः साल का बच्चा chaḥ sāl kā baccā six years GEN child "six-year-old child"

(Note that the noun "age" is not in here at all.) For whatever reason I labelled this QuantityValue before. Not so certain about that now. Nitin has suggested Characteristic~QuantityValue.

Is the QuantityValue even necessary? It doesn't seem much like a unit to me ("how much child do you have?" "six years") but it is [entity] of [quantity] [unit] which does fit that supersense syntactically it seems. The alternative is Characteristic~Identity.

esmanning commented 3 years ago

Is this equivalent to English "a child OF 5 (years)"? That's in English guidelines (§ 6.6) as Characteristic

nschneid commented 3 years ago

Yeah plain Characteristic as in English is probably the best. If it were "a distance OF 1000 yards" (is this in the English guidelines?) I could see QuantityValue~Identity. But the child's age is not being equated with the child quite like the measure is being equated with the distance.

aryamanarora commented 3 years ago

That makes sense. "of" can only be Characteristic~Identity though right?

nschneid commented 3 years ago

Per #141 we should change other uses of OF in this sense to also be plain Characteristic.

nschneid commented 2 years ago

Adding "a distance of 10m" (mentioned above) and "a height of 10m" (alluded to in #108) as plain Identity, analogous to and "the age of 8".

nschneid commented 2 years ago

"a child of 5" is already plain Characteristic: http://www.xposition.org/en/ages/