UMR distinguishes 2 types of modifiers:
Anchoring modifiers "situate the intended referent of the referring expression via reference to another object" (Croft); i.e., they provide referential grounding for a referent expression:
:poss
relation,:part
relation,have-rel-role-92
... the predicate for kinship relation (as in father of somebody).
Typifying modifiers "enrich the referent description by subcategorizing it or selecting the quantity (cardinality, amount, proportion, piece) of the category or type denoted by the head noun."
:mod
(a women's magazine as a magazine belonging to some subclass of magazines), also for demonstrative determiners (these shirts), for property concept modifiers (without their own frame files as e.g. quirky shirts):age
,:age-of
,have-age-91
(the thirty year-old man):group
,:group-of
,:have-group-91
for indicating the membership of groups (a swarm of bees):topic
,:topic-of
,have-topic-91
for indicating what a referent is about as in (Information about the case), and:medium
,:medium-of
,have-medium-91
for indicating channels of communication, such as languages, ... (a French song)
Quantification ... Part 3-2-2-5
:ord
(always with an (o/ ordinal-entity) concept as a daughter, :value),:quant
,:range
,:scale
,:unit
, and:value
Others
:example
is used to annotate illustrative examples of object categories (countries like Germany and France);:name
introduces named entities.
AMR:
:consist-of
(UMR -->have-group-91
,have-material-91
)
a team of monkeys
AMR: (team :consist-of (monkey)) --> UMR: have-group-91 (ARG1 entity, ARG2 group)
a ring of gold
AMR: (ring :consist-of (gold)) --> UMR: have-material-91 (ARG1 entity, ARG2 material):subevent
(presentation at a conference) ... ???:subset
(withinclude-91
as reification) ...UMR -->include-91
AMR: nine of the twenty soldiers
(s/soldier :quant 9
:subset-of (s3/soldier :quant 20))
:poss
(= :possessor
) vs. :poss-of
(:possessor-of
) ... CHANGE of labels in UMR
The Guidelines:
UMR uses :poss and :part relations with the possessum or part as the parent and the possessor or whole as the daughter, ...
!!! possessum as the parent and the possessor/owner as the daughter !!!
(possessum
:possessor (possessor))
Summary:
- Use
:poss
(=:possessor
) when talk about a thing that is possessed by someone (like in Petrova kniha)!!! - Use
:poss-of
relation (=:possessor-of
) when talk about an owner/possessor of something (like in liščí majitel, majitel lišek)) !!! - Use
have-poss-91
-->have-91
when interpreted as predication, withARG1
=possessor andARG2
=possessum.
:poss
examples (the Guidelines, English data):
- your stuff/ticket/dog ... (stuff/ticket/dog :poss (person))
- aspects of the movement ... (aspect :poss (movement))
- our force ... (force :poss (person))
- from the country's companies ... (company :poss (country)) (i.e., OK companies belonging to the country)
- his thing ... (thing :poss (person))
- the kid’s hat ... (hat :poss (kid))
- his (=Putin’s) special commission (commission :poss Putin)
(i.e., commission belonging to Putin) - Russian torpedo (torpedo :poss Russia))
--> OK in the English data, OK in the Guidelines
:poss-of
examples:
Guidelines NO example
English data just 1 example
- the goat man (= the man with goat) ... (man :possession-of (goat))
ML: Based on context, I would interpret it as :mod (the attribute "goat" serves to identify the man (there are 2 men there)).
have-poss-91
examples:
NO example in the Guidelines nor in the English data.
NO example and no mention in the UMR Guidelines.
Just listed among UMR roles (as a reification of the poss relation; however, have-91
also listed there as a reification of the poss relation) ... have-poss-91
--> have-91
?? (Ask Julia!!)
OK, UMR and AMR relation :poss
is the same.
(c / car
:poss (h / he))
:part
vs. :part-of
The Guidelines:
UMR uses :poss and :part relations with the possessum or part as the parent and the possessor or whole as the daughter, ...
!!! part/fragment as the parent and the whole entity as the daughter !!!
(part/fragment
:part (whole entity))
Summary:
- Use
:part
when talk about a thing that belongs to some bigger entity (like in ...) - Use
:part-of
relation when talk about the whole entity (like in ...) - Use
have-part-91
when interpreted as predication, withARG1
=the whole entity andARG2
= its part/fragment
:part
examples (the UMR Guidelines, the English released data):
- his blood/hand/string/car ... (blood/hand/string/car :part (person)) ... from the UMR Guidelines
- guitar's string ... (string :part (guitar) ... from the UMR Guidelines
- blood pressure = pressure of his blood ... (pressure-01 :ARG1 (blood :part person)) ... from the UMR Guidelines
- the government office (= the office is part of the government, the data) ... (office :part (government))
--> OK in the Guidelines, OK for some examples in the English data
KO annotation in the English data (2/5 plus 1 unclear):
- in the central Philippines ... (Philippines :part (center))
- like an apron with pockets (= thing [resembling apron] with pockets ) ... (thing :part (pocket))
Both should be annotated as
:part-of
!!
:part-of
examples:
UMR Guidelines NO example!!
English data 4 examples, all of them wrong ... should be (part :part whole)!!
- in the south of Leyte ... (south :part-of (Leyte) ) KO
- at the top of the ladder ... (top :part-of (ladder)) KO
- on the front ... (front :part-of (thing)) KO
- to the side of the road ... (side :part-of (road)) KO
have-part-91
examples:
UMR Guidelines NO example!!
English data just 1 example:
- And the movie had sound track. (have-part-91 :ARG1 (movie) ... entity = whole :ARG2 (sound-track)) ... part --> OK
!!! UMR :part
has and opposite direction compared to that in AMR, at least based on examples from the Guidelines!!! (in fact, UMR :part
corresponds to AMR :part-of
) !!!
UMR: (engine :part (car))
AMR: (engine :part-of (car))