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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi Mike,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I think having properties appear on an `i' variable should be considered a bug in the grammar. Looking now at the trunk gold profiles, I find two kinds of examples where the relevant lexical type failed to constrain
a quantifier's ARG0 to be an `x', and I have now fixed those errors. I also see that in the file erg/etc/core.smi, the ARG0 for quantifier predicates is uniformly presented as an `i' (with properties), but these should also be `x'. I'll see if I can get
this correction into the 2018 release, which I aim to freeze and announce this week.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> Dan</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 12, 2018 10:57 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [developers] SEM-I question: properties on 'i' variables</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi all,<br>
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What does it mean when variable properties are specified on 'i'? The <br>
following example is taken from <a href="http://moin.delph-in.net/SemiRfc" id="LPlnk477215" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://moin.delph-in.net/SemiRfc</a>, which <br>
comes from the ERG:<br>
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_a+little_q : ARG0 i { NUM sg }, RSTR h, BODY h.<br>
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In the "variables" section of the ERG's SEM-I, no properties are defined <br>
on 'i', and 'NUM' is only on 'x':<br>
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u.<br>
i < u.<br>
p < u.<br>
h < p.<br>
e < i : PERF bool, PROGR bool, MOOD bool, TENSE tense, SF sf.<br>
x < i & p : DIV bool, IND bool, GEND gender, PERS person, NUM <br>
number, PT pt.<br>
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So why is 'i' the value of 'ARG0' on the predicate synopsis above? Why <br>
not 'x'?<br>
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When I looked through through all the .smi files of the ERG (trunk), 'i' <br>
was the only underspecified variable type that took properties, and <br>
every instance specified 'x' properties such as NUM or IND (not 'e' <br>
properties like TENSE or SF). Perhaps something in the grammar could be <br>
more tightly constrained so the SEM-I generation code doesn't enumerate <br>
apparent redundancies such as the following?<br>
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def_explicit_q : ARG0 x { NUM sg }, RSTR h, BODY h.<br>
def_implicit_q : ARG0 i { NUM sg }, RSTR h, BODY h.<br>
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Or am I mistaken in thinking these are erroneous?<br>
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-mwg<br>
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