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English Resource Grammar
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SF: prop-or-like and PT: notpro in VPM but not SEM-I #13

Closed goodmami closed 4 years ago

goodmami commented 5 years ago

The semi.vpm has the following under the PT variable property:

  notpro <> notpro

...and the following under the SF property:

  prop-or-like     <> prop-or-like

...meaning that these properties are externally visible (appear on MRSs output by the grammar). However, they are not placed in the value hierarchy in etc/erg.smi, so they would be surprising to the user who relies on the SEM-I to understand the semantics. Either they should be added to the SEM-I or we should have ! on the right-hand-side of those VPM lines.

This is an issue that we discussed over email but never reached a conclusion, although Dan suspected that neither should be externally visible and thus not in the SEM-I.

oepen commented 4 years ago

the current trunk looks fine, in this regard. neither of the above grammar-internal properties should be exposed in external MRSs, the way i read the current VPM.