<div dir="ltr">Hi Paul,<div><br></div><div>This might be easier to answer if you could send a complete MRS (perhaps</div><div>for a shorter example with the same property)...</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Paul Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Folks,<br>
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I'm getting the subject relation with non-hole arguments: <br>
<ul>
<li>{ARG0=e61[declarative, indicative, ¬perfective, ¬progressive,
untensed]}, {ARG1=x55[individuated, plural, third]}]</li>
</ul>
for a parse of the sentence:<br>
<ul>
<li>Some organisms survive and others die as the environment
changes; this changes the percent of organisms with certain
traits in that population.</li>
</ul>
<p>Here's the syntactic result of that parse, fyi:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>'some'('organisms')('survive')('and'('others'('die'('as'('the'('environment'('changes')))))))('this'('changes'('the'('percent'('of'('organisms'))))('with'('certain'('traits'('in'('that'('population'))))))))<br>
</li>
</ul>
The specific lexical entry involved is:<br>
<ul>
<li>certain_det := d_-_prt-pl_le & [ ORTH < "certain" >,
SYNSEM [ LKEYS.ALTKEYREL.PRED _certain_q_rel, PHON.ONSET con ]
].</li>
</ul>
<p>And the relation is defined as follows:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>_certain_q_rel := explicit_quant_agr_q_rel.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>but I'm stumped on how it's landing up with ARGs instead of
normal quantification arguments. <br>
</p>
<p>Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this is proper?<br>
</p>
<p>Thank you,<br>
Paul<br>
</p>
<p><br>
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</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>
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