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oewn-00507570-r: only, only if, only when #977

Closed aclueless closed 8 months ago

aclueless commented 1 year ago

This is more a question than an issue. But I think it is an issue in my view (as a non-English-speaker)

synset:

example:

Make use of each items in the examples we have:

  1. call me only your cold gets worse
  2. call me only if your cold gets worse
  3. call me only when your cold gets worse

I will never use the phrase 1 myself. Is it actually the same as the other phrases?

jmccrae commented 1 year ago

I agree, phrase 1 is ungrammatical.

I think this synset would certainly fail the test of compositionality if it were to be introduced as a new synset, so we could remove this synset entirely. We should be cautious about removing synsets that may be already used for annotation. I notice most of the reference dictionaries do not have 'only if' as a member.

At the least, we should remove the member 'only' as it is clearly not a synonym.