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"hammer classifies teapot" #72

Closed simongray closed 3 years ago

simongray commented 3 years ago

Taken from: https://globalwordnet.github.io/gwadoc/#classifies

This example caused me to pause and wonder how on earth a hammer might classify a teapot. Is it because hammers can break teapots..? Is it because some metal teapots are made in part using a hammer...?

Here are two things that could be the case:

fcbond commented 3 years ago

Thanks for pointing things out, the examples are indeed wrong.

I will replace with rasher / bacon (English) ekor / kucing (Indonesian) 匹 / 猫 (Japanese)

arademaker commented 3 years ago

Why knife classifies sword ? Isn't it not a kind of?

fcbond commented 3 years ago

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:03 AM Alexandre Rademaker < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Why knife classifies sword ? Isn't it not a kind of?

No, all the examples are wrong.

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goodmami commented 3 years ago

No, all the examples are wrong.

And the definition looks broken:

Definition

A relation between a classifier concept A and concept B. A relation between a classifier A and B

Also...

I will replace with rasher / bacon (English) ekor / kucing (Indonesian) 匹 / 猫 (Japanese)

So are these just numeral classifiers or does it include other things, like measure words? I don't suppose we have those in other wordnets (they aren't a supported part of speech, e.g., for 匹 in the Japanese Wordnet). In English they are also nouns, so that might work out. But I don't have "rasher" in my dialect, and it's not even in the English WordNet, so maybe head / cattle?