<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Francis. The ones with the old string syntax (' ) have been<div>updated to regular strings already (so more recently than the start</div><div>of zhong, I guess!). </div><div><br></div><div>As for the other ones, it is not clear to me what the desirable values</div><div>are, actually:</div><div><br></div><div>* named_rel follow(s|ed) the ERG, and I suspect norm_rel did too.</div><div>* the Matrix does not have a strong position on hierarchies of predicate</div><div>names, and so I think defaults to strings there.</div><div><br></div><div>I can see, however, that having these as strings would get in the way</div><div>for grammars that wanted types (or different strings), and also that</div><div>using "exist_q_rel" in that particular case is imposing my view of what</div><div>the quantifier predicates should look like, without really supporting it.</div><div>I note that the bare-np-phrase type doesn't seem to give a PRED value</div><div>to its quant-relation...</div><div><br></div><div>I'd be interested to try to harmonize these aspects of our MRS representations,</div><div>maybe as a SIG this summer?</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Francis Bond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bond@ieee.org" target="_blank">bond@ieee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">G'day,<br> <br> we have five instances of '_rel' in a recent matrix (the one in zhong)<br> norm_rel := predsort.<br> named_rel := norm_rel.<br> [ PRED named_rel,<br> [ PRED 'implicit_coord_rel ].<br> [ PRED 'null_coord_rel ].<br> RELS <! [ PRED "exist_q_rel", ARG0 #ind, RSTR #ltop ] !>,<br> <br> I think one should be named_n_rel, one exist_q_rel (not a string) and<br> the others should also probably be types, or if strings<br> "coord_c_implict_rel", "coord_c_null_rel", ...<br> <br> I don't know about norm, but I suspect he is also nouny.<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> Francis Bond <<a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/</a>><br> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies<br> Nanyang Technological University<br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div></div> </div>