VERB -> ADJ about amr-guidelines

[kevincrawfordknight]

i like the idea, though i'd rather use cause-01, since we have machinery around that already, and since make is also often (and confusingly, here) a syntactical light verb in english.

[nschneid]

This sounds like it could open up a can of worms of verbs in having PropBank frames that we ask our annotators not to use, despite being a good semantic fit. And it makes the AMR a bit more distant from the sentence/complicated to read.

If the lexical mapping is really straightforward, why not just add an automatic postprocessing step that converts from the annotated verb frames? But I suspect there will be many borderline cases that require decision-making (like knowing when to verbalize, but in reverse), putting added burden on annotators. (Does specify = make-specific? Does categorize = make-categorical? That sort of thing.)

There might be a fundamental issue here about what the "deep" category of a lexical item is: entity-like, event-like, or attribute-like? Sometimes this is apparent from derivational morphology—like sadden and sadness being variants of the attribute sad—but not always.