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Guidelines for Surface Syntactic Universal Dependencies
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discourse vs mod #14

Closed sylvainkahane closed 1 year ago

sylvainkahane commented 3 years ago

In Spoken we much more use the relation discourse, because there is much more discourse marker in oral productions, but also because we become aware that some units can be discourse markers rather than modifiers. Nevertheless, even in Spoken, we often hesitate between discourse and mod and some annotation are not very consistent. For instance, "en fait" is analyzed in both ways for similar constructions: http://match.grew.fr/?corpus=SUD_French-Spoken@latest&custom=5fb3d5daef80e&clustering=e.label

One test we can use for distinguishing both construction is the clefting: typical modifiers can be clefted while discourse markers cannot:

il a répondu sans hésiter => c'est sans hésiter qu'il a répondu bon c'est pas gagné => *c'est bon que c'est pas gagné

Some adverbs cannot be clefted:

il est toujours content => *c'est toujours qu'il est content

but this adverbs are clearly modifiers and the test is not required. The test is only needed for small units which are prosodically detached. According to that I would like to analyse "en fait" or "du coup" as discourse.

This analysis will also be applied to so called "sentence adverbs":

il a répondu franchement => franchement is mod franchement c'est pas gagné => franchement is discourse