ErgSemantics_RelativeClauses

ESD Test Suite Examples

Linguistic Characterization

Motivating Examples

• Clear examples in cases of constructions difficult to differentiate in some cases, e.g. instrumental relatives v. purposives
• Include negative examples: strings that seem similar a priori but in fact do not represent the phenomenon. Such examples should help clarify the boundary of the phenomenon in question.

MRS Fingerprints

Suggestion from Dan is rel with event variable whose TENSE value is not untensed sharing a label with a rel with an ARG0 that is individual.

  h:[ARG0 x]
  h:[ARG0 e{TENSE tensed}]

This will draw a distinction precisely between full tensed relative clauses and reduced relatives (which look like other intersective modifiers).

For extraposed relatives:

relative_mod

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