Open arademaker opened 1 year ago
I think "in" is a perfectly good choice of preposition in this sentence.
I suppose this comes down to how we are supposed to interpret _in_p_loc
. If this just means "non-temporal" (because it contrasts with _in_p_temp
), then this seems okay: "in the shape of" means something spatial, not temporal.
But still, no reason for not having a reading with _in_p_state
, right?
Although, _in_p_state is actually a subtype of _in_p_loc ... so maybe that is the reason, no deep constraint from the noun to more fine-grained interpretation of the preposition.
I think that's right.
(Although I'm struggling to think of an example of an in-PP modifying a noun with a directional sense... I keep wanting to say "into" instead.)
http://delph-in.github.io/delphin-viz/demo/#input=a%20charge%20in%20the%20shape%20of%20a%20small%20ring&count=10&grammar=erg2018-uw&mrs=true&dmrs=true
Why I didn't get a reading with
_in_p_state
? OK, from the ERG source, I know that.So loc is a kind of supertype for _in_p_state... but still, we read location, right? Here the preposition
in
is more aboutwith
orX has the shape ...
.Maybe this WordNet definition should be best written as one of the following paraphrases.
Does it make sense? I mean, it is to expect so much from ERG to give us all our desired interpretations for a poorly chosen NL sentence.
(This is all thoughts from a non native English speaker)