some questions on the amr tutorial sentences about amr-guidelines

[uhermjakob]

2.----
Oops. Typo in guidelines. Should be :op2 (r / river). Corrected. Thanks.

3.----
scheme fills the :ARG1 slot for participate-01.
The other AMR means something like "Co-scheming, he participated."

4.----
Our objective was to uniformly map "according to" to a verb frame. There were several possible choices. We picked say-01.

5.----
The verb frame for come-01 has no :ARG0.

6.----
I think both AMRs are ok. The consensus AMR emphasizes that worker stands for a "person who works".
And "The boy is a hard-working person." matches our standard "X is Y" pattern, which we typically render as "Y :domain X".

7.----
Plan is a tricky word. We verbalize it when it describes a planning event. But for cases like "She selected the cell phone company's basic family plan." the meaning of "plan" is more that of a fee schedule.

8.---- and 9.----
Our objective was to represent non-exact quantities in a uniform way. We decided to have the "fuzzy operators" such as approximately X, more than X, between X and Y at the top, because they can have more than one :op (between). For more see http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/amr/lib/popup/quantities.html#non-exact-quantities

[nschneid]

(4): The convention for government is to always use govern-01 so there will be roles available when, e.g., the region governed is present. So U.S. government would be interpreted as "government-organization that governs the U.S.". This is admittedly ugly, but it works.

[kevincrawfordknight]

"the boy is a hard worker"

focus only affects the very top concept. the rest is determined by semantic relations, using inverses when necessary. for the very top of an AMR, we have a test that sometimes works -- wrap "believe" or "saw" or something around your AMR.

we can wrap the possibilities:

#1-style

(b / believe-01
  :arg0 (i / i)
  :arg1 (w / work-01
             :ARG0 (b / boy)
             :manner (h / hard)))

#2-style

(b / believe-01
  :arg0 (i / i)
  :arg1 (p / person
            :domain (b / boy)
            :ARG0-of (w / work-01
                            :manner (h / hard))))

the former seems a little better.

#3-style

(b / believe-01
  :arg0 (i / i)
  :arg1 (h / hard
            :manner-of (w / work-01
                               :ARG0 (b / boy))))

i would go with #3, but #1 seems ok too.

it's more clear for "i saw that the rock was hard" (#3 style) versus "i saw a hard rock" (#2 style).

ps. when thinking about focus, we don't think about "nominal" or "clausal" or syntactic things like that.