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Scouts are both boys or girls not boys and girls #1104

Closed jmccrae closed 1 month ago

jmccrae commented 1 month ago

Existing relation oewn-10582611-n (Interlingual Index: i92780) (n) Scout a Boy Scout or Girl Scout

Has hypernyms

oewn-10305010-n (Interlingual Index: i91171) (n) boy, male child a youthful male person “the baby was a boy” “she made the boy brush his teeth every night” “most soldiers are only boys in uniform”

oewn-10104064-n (Interlingual Index: i89923) (n) girl, female child, little girl a youthful female person “the baby was a girl” “the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle”

Proposed change Change to

oewn-09937706-n (Interlingual Index: i88965) (n) child, kid a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age “they had three children” “they were able to send their kids to college”

Motivation Hypernyms are intersect, so the current representation makes all scouts both boys and girls. We should change it to 'child' to make it more generic.

Note there is also this hyponym:

oewn-10560541-n (Interlingual Index: i92649) (n) scouter, rover an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

Which could make it more complex to change