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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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enough FOR animate #95

Open esmanning opened 4 years ago

esmanning commented 4 years ago

"There will surely be enough grass FOR him" Little Prince chapter 2 sent_id = lpp_1943.97

him = a sheep This construction seems to fit with ComparisonRef\~Purpose as per the guidelines ("sufficiency and excess"), but unlike the guidelines examples, the object here can also be read as a Beneficiary. Not sure how to choose between the two, or whether to try to capture both with ComparisonRef\~Beneficiary.

nschneid commented 4 years ago

Just because enough + N is followed by a for-PP doesn't necessarily mean the PP is licensed by "enough". I.e., this could mean the grass is enough for him (it meets his standards of quantity), or that the grass is for him and there is enough of it. Or both. I guess you have to decide which reading is more salient.

esmanning commented 4 years ago

The enough-for-him reading definitely seems more likely to me