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possible invalid MRS #42

Closed arademaker closed 1 year ago

arademaker commented 1 year ago

A man in a black jacket is doing tricks on a motorbike

One possible MRS for the sentence above is:

[ TOP: h0
  INDEX: e2 [ e SF: prop TENSE: pres MOOD: indicative PROG: - PERF: - ]
  RELS: < [ _a_q<0:1> LBL: h4 ARG0: x3 [ x PERS: 3 NUM: sg IND: + ] RSTR: h5 BODY: h6 ]
          [ _man_n_1<2:5> LBL: h7 ARG0: x3 ]
          [ _in_p_loc<6:8> LBL: h7 ARG0: e8 [ e SF: prop TENSE: untensed MOOD: indicative PROG: - PERF: - ] ARG1: x3 ARG2: x9 [ x PERS: 3 NUM: sg IND: + ] ]
          [ _a_q<9:10> LBL: h10 ARG0: x9 RSTR: h11 BODY: h12 ]
          [ _black_a_1<11:16> LBL: h13 ARG0: e14 [ e SF: prop TENSE: untensed MOOD: indicative PROG: bool PERF: - ] ARG1: x9 ]
          [ _jacket_n_1<17:23> LBL: h13 ARG0: x9 ]
          [ _be_v_id<24:26> LBL: h1 ARG0: e2 ARG1: x3 ARG2: x15 [ x PERS: 3 NUM: pl IND: + ] ]
          [ udef_q<27:54> LBL: h16 ARG0: x15 RSTR: h17 BODY: h18 ]
          [ compound<27:39> LBL: h19 ARG0: e20 [ e SF: prop TENSE: untensed MOOD: indicative PROG: - PERF: - ] ARG1: x15 ARG2: x21 [ x PERS: 3 NUM: sg GEND: n ] ]
          [ udef_q<27:32> LBL: h22 ARG0: x21 RSTR: h23 BODY: h24 ]
          [ _do_v_1<27:32> LBL: h25 ARG0: e26 [ e SF: prop TENSE: untensed MOOD: indicative PROG: + PERF: - ] ARG1: i27 ARG2: i28 ]
          [ nominalization<27:32> LBL: h29 ARG0: x21 ARG1: h25 ]
          [ _trick_n_1<33:39> LBL: h19 ARG0: x15 ]
          [ _on_p_loc<40:42> LBL: h19 ARG0: e30 [ e SF: prop TENSE: untensed MOOD: indicative PROG: - PERF: - ] ARG1: x15 ARG2: x31 [ x PERS: 3 NUM: sg IND: + ] ]
          [ _a_q<43:44> LBL: h32 ARG0: x31 RSTR: h33 BODY: h34 ]
          [ _motorbike_n_1<45:54> LBL: h35 ARG0: x31 ] >
  HCONS: < h0 qeq h1 h5 qeq h7 h11 qeq h13 h17 qeq h19 h23 qeq h29 h33 qeq h35 > ]

The _do_v_1 has ARG1 i27 and ARG2 i28. Is it invalid, right?

fcbond commented 1 year ago

I think so, it should be linked to man and tricks . I can't get of a weird reading where it is unlinked (like an interjection), but maybe others can?

guyemerson commented 1 year ago

The arguments are dropped in this reading, but it's still well-formed even if semantically weird: "doing tricks" is analysed as a compound like "magic tricks", "card tricks", "shuffling tricks", "doing tricks".

arademaker commented 1 year ago

Ah, I see, I forgot to pay attention to the _be_v_id. The reading is something like the man is tricks, a doing tricks