a Brazilian treebank annotated with semantic role labels
... Using this table, we were able to recognize verbal chains and select only the last verb at right of the chain (which corresponds to the main verb) as argument taker and consequently the focus of the “invoke frame” action. Our previous table has been improved by results from Baptista, Mamede and Gome ...
... Using this table, we were able to recognize verbal chains and select only the last verb at right of the chain (which corresponds to the main verb) as argument taker and consequently the focus of the “invoke frame” action. Our previous table has been improved by results from Baptista, Mamede and Gome ...
Lesson 5 Verbs--Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
... A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence t ...
... A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence t ...
An Overview of Lexical Semantics
... thing, but cutting or breaking it does. (Of course if I hit the vase, then the vase now is in the state of having been hit by me. As we will see repeatedly, there is a sense in which our language does not treat such ‘Cambridge changes’ as changes of state at all, and this fact is manifested in the v ...
... thing, but cutting or breaking it does. (Of course if I hit the vase, then the vase now is in the state of having been hit by me. As we will see repeatedly, there is a sense in which our language does not treat such ‘Cambridge changes’ as changes of state at all, and this fact is manifested in the v ...
The definitions in this glossary are intended to help the teachers of
... Person B: That doesn’t matter. You are a nurse, and just like everyone else in the medical world, you are trying to make a buck. adjectival clause A group of words with a subject and a verb that acts as an adjective by describing a noun or pronoun. Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, which, that) u ...
... Person B: That doesn’t matter. You are a nurse, and just like everyone else in the medical world, you are trying to make a buck. adjectival clause A group of words with a subject and a verb that acts as an adjective by describing a noun or pronoun. Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, which, that) u ...
Practice 1
... Sentence variety exercise 1 Coordinating Conjunctions The most common way to put nouns, verbs, objects, or other parts of sentences together is by using one or more of the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS). FANBOYS can join subjects in a sentence: S ...
... Sentence variety exercise 1 Coordinating Conjunctions The most common way to put nouns, verbs, objects, or other parts of sentences together is by using one or more of the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS). FANBOYS can join subjects in a sentence: S ...
Revised 08-27-08 Sentence variety exercise 1 Coordinating
... Sentence variety exercise 1 Coordinating Conjunctions The most common way to put nouns, verbs, objects, or other parts of sentences together is by using one or more of the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS). FANBOYS can join subjects in a sentence: S ...
... Sentence variety exercise 1 Coordinating Conjunctions The most common way to put nouns, verbs, objects, or other parts of sentences together is by using one or more of the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS). FANBOYS can join subjects in a sentence: S ...
Common Sentence Errors Make your Writing More
... Example 3: "We petted the cats after they ate their food." Copyright 2012 ...
... Example 3: "We petted the cats after they ate their food." Copyright 2012 ...
Syntactic overview
... is not a syntactic category term comparable to ‘clause’, ‘noun phrase’, ‘verb phrase’, etc., and does not figure in our constituent structure representations. Most work in formal grammar makes the opposite choice and uses sentence (abbreviated S) rather than clause in constituent structure represent ...
... is not a syntactic category term comparable to ‘clause’, ‘noun phrase’, ‘verb phrase’, etc., and does not figure in our constituent structure representations. Most work in formal grammar makes the opposite choice and uses sentence (abbreviated S) rather than clause in constituent structure represent ...
Parallelism Practice
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
essential grammatical features of jaminjung and ngaliwurru
... further characteristic is the scarcity of word-class changing derivational morphology. Nominal stems may be derived from coverb roots, but not vice versa. Verbs cannot be nominalised at all, and nominals cannot be verbalised. Therefore, the terms ‘nominal’, ‘coverb’ and ‘verb’ will be used to refer ...
... further characteristic is the scarcity of word-class changing derivational morphology. Nominal stems may be derived from coverb roots, but not vice versa. Verbs cannot be nominalised at all, and nominals cannot be verbalised. Therefore, the terms ‘nominal’, ‘coverb’ and ‘verb’ will be used to refer ...
sample lesson - Daily Grammar
... The use of helping verbs causes certain changes in verb phrases that we need to be able to recognize. One change is the use of contractions (contractions are two or more words combined together with an apostrophe). ...
... The use of helping verbs causes certain changes in verb phrases that we need to be able to recognize. One change is the use of contractions (contractions are two or more words combined together with an apostrophe). ...
Document
... • The Simple Subject tells WHAT or WHOM the sentence is about. Chad, my next door neighbor, went to the store to buy some apples. Simple Subject Complete Subject The Complete Subject tells about the WHOLE subject of the sentence. ...
... • The Simple Subject tells WHAT or WHOM the sentence is about. Chad, my next door neighbor, went to the store to buy some apples. Simple Subject Complete Subject The Complete Subject tells about the WHOLE subject of the sentence. ...
English modal verbs - Basic Knowledge 101
... tional form of can in the above meanings (see Past forms • You may leave the room means that the listener is above). It is also used to express possible circumstance: permitted to leave the room. We could be in trouble here. It is preferable to use could, may or might rather than can when expressing ...
... tional form of can in the above meanings (see Past forms • You may leave the room means that the listener is above). It is also used to express possible circumstance: permitted to leave the room. We could be in trouble here. It is preferable to use could, may or might rather than can when expressing ...
latin grammar notebook - cathyeagle
... • Transitive verb: action verb which takes a direct object ( a noun that answers who or what after the verb) – The action transfers to another word – Example • Rex hits Claudius. Rex Claudium pulsat. ...
... • Transitive verb: action verb which takes a direct object ( a noun that answers who or what after the verb) – The action transfers to another word – Example • Rex hits Claudius. Rex Claudium pulsat. ...
Context Effects on Frame Probability Independent of Verb Sense
... We used a straightforward operational definition of context: the context of a target sentence is formed by the sentences that precede it. We will not make any assumptions regarding the discourse properties of the context. Rather, our aim is to show that context effects exists; investigating the disc ...
... We used a straightforward operational definition of context: the context of a target sentence is formed by the sentences that precede it. We will not make any assumptions regarding the discourse properties of the context. Rather, our aim is to show that context effects exists; investigating the disc ...
Lie back and enjoy it: The Expression of Passive Sense in Non
... two present-tense paradigms, the simple and continuous one German present tense formh has to carry continuous, iterative and "hot news" Thesis: more morphological mechanisms available in English to express passiveness than in German: certainly he English toinfinitive is far less flexible syntactical ...
... two present-tense paradigms, the simple and continuous one German present tense formh has to carry continuous, iterative and "hot news" Thesis: more morphological mechanisms available in English to express passiveness than in German: certainly he English toinfinitive is far less flexible syntactical ...
Beginnings in North Sámi* Marit Julien 1 Introduction Verbs that
... the presentation is first and foremost to show how much expressions of inceptive aspect can vary within one single language, but in addition, I also compare my findings to the proposals of Cinque (2006) and Fukuda (2008), in order to see if the patterns found in North Sámi are compatible with any of ...
... the presentation is first and foremost to show how much expressions of inceptive aspect can vary within one single language, but in addition, I also compare my findings to the proposals of Cinque (2006) and Fukuda (2008), in order to see if the patterns found in North Sámi are compatible with any of ...
Chinese Main Verb Identification
... follows: The definition problem involved in automatically identifying the main verb from the computational point of view has not been tackled in detail. To our knowledge, only Luo [1995] has studied a relatively simple definition. Since there has not been sufficient discussion of the specification o ...
... follows: The definition problem involved in automatically identifying the main verb from the computational point of view has not been tackled in detail. To our knowledge, only Luo [1995] has studied a relatively simple definition. Since there has not been sufficient discussion of the specification o ...
Grammar on the Go!
... Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns Adding the suffixes self or selves to the personal pronoun form intensive and reflexive pronouns. Although they are spelled the same, they have different roles and locations in the sentence ...
... Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns Adding the suffixes self or selves to the personal pronoun form intensive and reflexive pronouns. Although they are spelled the same, they have different roles and locations in the sentence ...
Automata for Language Processing
... While this doesn't necessarily result in a non deterministic machine, in practice it almost always does. The name "Hidden Markov Model" arises from this non determinism - given a sequence, it is not clear what sequence of states produced it because we do not know what output each state had. Let's co ...
... While this doesn't necessarily result in a non deterministic machine, in practice it almost always does. The name "Hidden Markov Model" arises from this non determinism - given a sequence, it is not clear what sequence of states produced it because we do not know what output each state had. Let's co ...
Relational Processes
... Most clauses also include information that is the focus of the message, New information. When a speaker / writer constructs a clause, where Given information is placed first & New information come second, the clause is said to be unmarked. Theme in English is the idea represented by the const ...
... Most clauses also include information that is the focus of the message, New information. When a speaker / writer constructs a clause, where Given information is placed first & New information come second, the clause is said to be unmarked. Theme in English is the idea represented by the const ...
LECTURE 5 CONTENTS 1. Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG
... A level of analysis, such as the c‐structure, can be postulated only on empirical evidence. Dalrymple (2002, Chapter 3) provides evidence for c‐structure drawn from intonation, question formation, verb second, clitic placement and adverb distribution phenomena. Th ...
... A level of analysis, such as the c‐structure, can be postulated only on empirical evidence. Dalrymple (2002, Chapter 3) provides evidence for c‐structure drawn from intonation, question formation, verb second, clitic placement and adverb distribution phenomena. Th ...
Generation for Multilingual MT
... global information. This approach is similar to that of other large-scale generators (Tomita and Nyberg, 1988). The generation rules operate on a single tree. Rule application is deterministic and thus very efficient. If necessary, the tree can be traversed more than once, as is the case in the gene ...
... global information. This approach is similar to that of other large-scale generators (Tomita and Nyberg, 1988). The generation rules operate on a single tree. Rule application is deterministic and thus very efficient. If necessary, the tree can be traversed more than once, as is the case in the gene ...
Chinese grammar
This article concerns Standard Chinese. For the grammars of other forms of Chinese, see their respective articles via links on Chinese language and varieties of Chinese.The grammar of Standard Chinese shares many features with other varieties of Chinese. The language almost entirely lacks inflection, so that words typically have only one grammatical form. Categories such as number (singular or plural) and verb tense are frequently not expressed by any grammatical means, although there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect, and to some extent mood.The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO). Otherwise, Chinese is chiefly a head-last language, meaning that modifiers precede the words they modify – in a noun phrase, for example, the head noun comes last, and all modifiers, including relative clauses, come in front of it. (This phenomenon is more typically found in SOV languages like Turkish and Japanese.)Chinese frequently uses serial verb constructions, which involve two or more verbs or verb phrases in sequence. Chinese prepositions behave similarly to serialized verbs in some respects (several of the common prepositions can also be used as full verbs), and they are often referred to as coverbs. There are also location markers, placed after a noun, and hence often called postpositions; these are often used in combination with a coverb. Predicate adjectives are normally used without a copular verb (""to be""), and can thus be regarded as a type of verb.As in many east Asian languages, classifiers or measure words are required when using numerals (and sometimes other words such as demonstratives) with nouns. There are many different classifiers in the language, and each countable noun generally has a particular classifier associated with it. Informally, however, it is often acceptable to use the general classifier 个 [個] ge in place of other specific classifiers.Examples given in this article use simplified Chinese characters (with the traditional characters following in brackets if they differ) and standard pinyin Romanization.