The GDA Tag Set

Version 0.68 (Jan. 1, 2004)
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This document discusses the GDA (Global Document Annotation) tag set, providing rationale of tags and examples of their usage. This may serve as a tagging manual for human annotators with plenty knowledge of both theoretical and computational linguistics, but the real tagging manual for most annotators must be provided on the basis of this document.

The GDA tag set aims at making the propositional content (and the dialogue structure) of linguistic data automatically recognizable. It is being developed so as to be easy to embed into TEI, EAGLES, and HTML tag sets. So the meanings of the GDA tags should be maximally consistent with the three tag sets. Some tags are imported from them, but when such a tag is defined in two or more of them, the meaning in HTML is preferrred to that of TEI and EAGLES, because GDA tags are expected to be very often embedded in HTML files.

This document is released for the sake of public survey and evaluation. Empirical evaluation is necessary on both how useful the tags described below are for practical applications and how consistently people can annotate documents with those tags. We would like to improve the tag set by taking results of such evaluations into account, before announcing it for public, extensive use.

To optimize the benefit per cost of tagging, we try to design as simple a tag set as posibble which captures enough contents for practical applications. The propositional content of an utterance might be unlimitedly complex due to the complexity of the context. An appropriate degree of complexity of the tag set could be identified, however, because the present technology concerning natural language can effectively process only limited sorts of information. For instance, tagging for metonymy may not be very useful. The tag set should go along with the contemporary state of the art. We can refine the tag set when more detailed tags become useful as technology advances.

Here we do not restrict ourselves to any single NLP/AI application, but try to address as many aspects of language which seem useful in one of translation, retrieval, summarization, question answering, case-based reasoning, presentation, and so forth. Users interested in only some of these applications may want to use subsets of the tag set. In this connection, the GDA tags are almost entirely optional, as application technologies do not normally require exhaustive tagging. In fact, many relatively simple untagged sentences can be analyzed right by the current technology. So we have tried to design the GDA tag set in such a way that more minute annotation entails more information; in particular, if you do not annotate then you do not commit yourself to any specific interpretation.

The GDA tag set is not specific to any particular language, though the example passages below are mostly in English. The usage of the tags is subject to some customization for particular languages, but we want to use the same vocabulary for the sake of coordination across different languages. Of course different tagging manuals are necessary for different languages. However, we hope to design the tag set so that it is easy for you to write such a manual once you have understood the idea behind the tag set.

The tag set is not a linguistic theory. It encodes the propositional content and the dialogues structure of a document, remaining somewhat neutral among linguistic theories. Encoding the propositional content and dialogue structure on the one hand and capturing linguistic generalizations on the other are different issues. In particular, we will sacrifice syntactic generalization very often, because syntax is not our primary concern but used as a partial aid for encoding semantics and pragmatics. This could be justified because people probably have better intuition about semantics and pragmatics than about syntax. Of course linguistic theories are very helpful in designing the tag set, but what is important is that the tag set can represent the semantic and pragmatic structure of a wide range of documents, but not that it captures linguistic generalizations. Needless to say, we will attempt to capture as much linguistic generalization as possible as far as we do not sacrifice clarity and ease of encoding semantic and pragmatic structures.

In principle, null annotation entails no information in the GDA tag set. This is to allow partial annotation. In particular, nothing is meant by the absense of a tag or an attribute. For instance, lack of specification of the scope of a plural noun phrase (as an alleged quantifier) does not mean that the noun phrase has no scope. The GDA tag set sometimes allows you to entail some information by lack of annotation, but the tag set is designed in such a way that you should be aware that you are meaning something with null annotation in such cases.

The rest of this document consists of two parts. The first is Section 2, which may be regarded as a user manual. This section contains subsections each of which addresses how to annotate a particular type of linguistic construction such as dependency, anaphora, and scoping. The second part is Section 3 and thereafter, which may be thought of as a reference manual, discussing how to use each tag and attribute.

2. Annotation of Semantic Structures

The GDA tag set is designed so that the GDA-annotation reduces the ambiguity in mapping a document to a sort of entity-relation graph (or semantic network) representing the underlying semantic structure. The tag set does not directly encode such graphs, though it should be straightforward to encode them with RDF or related tag sets such as DAML.

A semantic network consists of nodes and links, which may be labelled with concept identifiers. For instance, sentence `Tom met a girl' may have the semantic structure shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: A semantic structure of `Tom met a girl.'

Operator identifiers are concept identifiers representing the (syntactic, semantic, or other) functions of function words (auxiliary, preposition, postposition, article, etc.) and function morphemes (tense marker, number marker, etc.). In Figure 1, the gray rectangles are operator identifiers. Many operator identifiers, such as agt (agent), sg (singular), and past, are defined native in the GDA tag set, and thus are of the simplest form without the `ont:' prefix. An operator identifier is either a relation identifier or a unary operator identifier. A relation identifeir represents a binary relation and is often associated with a dependency. For instance, the dependency of the subject on the verb may carry an AGENT relation, which is indicated by relation identifier agt. A unary operator identifier represents the function of auxiliary, article, some inflectional morpheme, or the like. Both relation identifiers and unary operator identifiers may lack explicit linguistic markings. For instance, no explicit word or morpheme designates the agt relationship between `met' and `Tom' in `Tom met a girl.'

The disks in Figure 1 are entities such as objects and events. As mentioned above, the dashed arrows represent membership to or containment in concepts. For instance, node m1 is an instance of concept eng:meet, thus representing a meeting event. Similarly, node g2 represents a single girl. The labelled solid arrows are instances of (primitive) binary relations designated by the labelling relation identifiers. For instance, the arrow from node m1 to Tom means that Tom is the agent of meeting event m1.

The semantic structure in Figure 1 can be addressed as follows.

<su>
  <persnamep opr="agt">Tom </persnamep>
  <v sem="past.eng:meet">met <v>
  <np opr="obj">
    <adp sem="sg">a </adp>
    <n sem="eng:girl">girl</n>
  </np>.
</su>

• `Tom' and `a girl' both depend on `met', and
• `a' depends on `girl'.

The semantic structure of each GDA element consists of two parts which are called the head semantics and the operator, partially encoded by the sem and opr attributes, respectively. The value of each of these attributes in the above example is a concept string, which is a sequence of one or more concept identifiers connected via dots (`.'). In general, the value of sem and opr attribute may be one or more concept strings separated by blanks. The only nonatomic concept string in the above example is past.eng:meet. The order among the concept identifiers in a concept string should be consistent with the directions of the solid arrows in the corresponding part of the semantic structure. For instance, the following annotation is possible, where past and ont1:buy#2 must precede obj and obj must precede sg and deu:Blume, but there is no restriction on the order between past and ont1:buy#2 or that between sg and deu:Blume.

<v sem="past.ont1:buy#2.obj.sg.deu:Blume">bought a flower </v>

Figure 2: The directed path represented by past.ont1:buy#2.obj.sg.deu:Blume.

In general, a concept string represents a directed path as in Figure 2, which is in general a linear sequence of disk nodes connected via solid arrows in the same direction, where the nodes are instances of lexical concepts and unary operators, and the arrows are instances of binary relations, and the order among the concept identifiers in the concept string is compatible with the order along the directed path.

In general, the head semantics and the operator of a GDA element are directed paths, as shown in Figure 3:

Figure 3: Two parts of semantic structure of a GDA element.

The initial node of the main seantics of GDA element X is equal to the final node of the operator of X and called the self node of X and written self(X). The initial node of the operator of X is called the governor node of X and written gov(X).

There are four types of syntactic constructions: dependency structure, coordinate structure, apposition, and repair. Dependency structures and appositive structures partially overlap. The type of the syntactic construction at the top of an element is specified by the syn attribute.

2.1. Dependency Structure

If GDA element X depends on another GDA element Y or X is the head of Y, then gov(X) = self(Y). In Figure 1, for instance, gov(`Tom') = self(`met') = m1, where the solid arrow labelled with agt is the operator of `Tom.' The operator of X may be null, in which case self(X) = gov(X) = self(Y). In fact, self(`people') = gov(`people') = self(`for') in `for people'.

The opr attribute encodes a relationship in which the current element stands with respect to the element that it depends on, as in:

<v>go <adp opr="fin">to Paris </adp></v>

<v>go <ad sem="fin">to </ad>Paris </v>

Relation identifers can be combined to make compound relation identifers. There are two types of combination. If a and b are relation identifers, then so are a.b and a b, too. The operator `.' has precedence over the blank operator. That is, a.b c is the combination of a.b and c through blank.

a.b represents the composition of a and b as binary relations. That is, x and z stand in relation a.b, if and only if there exists y such that x and y stand in relation a and y and z stand in relation b.

<su>Tom stayed there <adp opr="tmx.fin">until noon</adp>.</su>

<v>eat it <adp opr="obj.int">from the head</adp></v>.

sleep <np opr="tmx.msr">ten hours </np>

swim <np opr="spx.msr">two miles </np>

Multiple concept strings in the value of a sem or opr attribute are conjunctive, which represent the intersection of the denotation of the concept strings. Here we generally regard the denotation of a concept string as a binary relation, even when the concept string is a unary operator. So the conjunction of concept strings denotes the intersection of the binary relations denoted by the concept strings. (A binary relation is a subset of the Cartesian product of two sets. So the conjunction of several binary relations is the intersection of those subsets.) The value of a sem or opr attribute is multiple concept strings when the meaning in question cannot be captured by a single category, such as below.

I came <adp opr="res pur">so that I met him</adp>.

In `Kim likes Mary better than Betty,' for instance, we must specify whether `Betty' is compared with `Kim' or `Mary.' Similarly, in `Kim blamed Mary together with Betty,' we want to mark whether Kim and Betty blamed Mary or Kim blamed Mary and Betty. To implement this in general, we use extended relation identifers of the form a-b, where a and b are relation identifers but not extended relation identifers. a is a relation identifer such as cmp and bsc, and b is a relation identifer to indicate which element is in parallel with the current element, as in what follows:

Kim likes Mary better <adp opr="cmp-sbj">than Betty</adp>.

Bill helped Tom <adp opr="ql-sbj">as his son</adp>.

Tom found Sue <adp opr="pst-sbj">before Kim</adp>.

The relation identifers are used as attributes as well, which we will call relational attributes. While the opr attribute appears in the depending element (the satellite in the case of rhetorical relations), the relational attribute appears in the governing element (the nucleus) and points to the depending element. Namely, the value of the relational attribute is the referential index of the element, if any, which semantically or pragmatically depends on the element containing this relational attribute. Of course the attribute name indicates the type of the dependency.

<np id="t1">Tom </np><v agt="t1">came</v>.

promise <np id="y1">me </np> <vp sbj="y1">to be admitted </vp>

Coreference is encoded by the relational attribute eq.

<np id="j0">John </np>beats <adp eq="j0">his </adp> wife.

Most of the syntactic constructions are dependency structures. The dep attribute can specify dependencies across element boundaries. The other, ordinary dependencies hold within elements. When an intrasentential element lacks the dep attribute, its syntactic relationship with the surrounding context is specified by the syn attribute of its parent element. syn="f" entails forward dependencies, whereas syn="b" backward dependencies.

The complexity of tagging is reduced by syn="f" and syn="b". For instance,

<adp syn="b">in order to talk to one of them </adp>

<adp>
  in
  <seg>
    order
    <seg>
      to
      <seg>
        talk
        <seg>
          to
          <seg>
            one
            <seg>
              of them
            </seg>
          </seg>
        </seg>
      </seg>
    </seg>
  </seg>
</adp>

<su syn="b">
  <np>I </np>
  went
  <np>there </np>
  <np>yesterday </np>
  <adp>by foot </adp>
  <adp>with you </adp>
  <adp>after lunch</adp>.
</su>

2.2. Nonstandard Dependency

Nonstandard dependencies including crossing dependencies and parentheticals are marked up by the dep attribute. Here is an example of crossing dependency:

<su>
  <np>I </np>
  saw
  <np id="m0">a man </np>
  <np>yesterday </np>
  <vp dep="m0">who I don't know </vp>
</su>

<su>
  <np>I </np>
  saw
  <np mod="w0">a man </np>
  <np>yesterday </np>
  <vp id="w0">who I don't know </vp>
</su>

Parentheticals with normal dependencies can be annotated normally:

<su syn="b">
  <np>
    Admission,
    <adp>even of a regular customer</adp>,
  </np>
  is prohibited.
</su>

<su>
  <np>That dog</np>,
  <adp dep="nil">or <vp><np>it </np>may be <np>a cat</np></vp></adp>,
  is scary.
</su>

<su>
  <np>That dog</np>,
  <su>or <vp><np>it </np>may be <np>a cat</np></vp></su>,
  is scary.
</su>

<su dep="S" syn="b" opr="cnt">
  <np>You </np> should,
  <su id="S">I suppose</su>,
  do <np>it </np> by yourself.
</su>

2.3. Other Local Constructions

Local syntactic constructions other than dependency are coordination, apposition, repair, error, and idiosyncratic structures, specified by syn="c", syn="a", syn="r", and syn="e", respectively. These structures consist of peer terms and operators. In `A and B,' for instance, `A' and `B' are peer terms and `and' is an operator. <fo> (forward affixing operator), <bo> (backward affixing operator), <io> (infix operator) elements are operators when they are children of coordinate, apposition, repair, error, and idiosyncratic structures.

<np syn="c"> Tom<io> and</io>Mary </np>came

<np syn="c"> Tom<bo> instead of</bo>Mary </np>came

syn="c" specifies a coordination, which may have a scope. In general, scoping is encoded by the sce (scoping element) attribute, which points at the scoping element (the coordinate structure in this case). In the following, the whole sentence is the scope of `London and Paris.'

<su sce="LP">I lived in <np id="LP" syn="c">London and Paris</np>. </su>

<np syn="c" sce="self">London and Paris </np> are different.

Appositive strutucre involving gapping is specified by syn="a" and annotated similarly to coordinate structure.

<su syn="a">
  <vp>
    <np>I </np>
    gave
    <np id="it">it </np>
    <adp id="mary">to Mary</adp>
  </vp>,
  <bo>that is</bo>,
  <vp>
    <np sb="it">the present </np>
    <adp sb="mary">to my wife</adp>
  </vp>.
</su>

Again here is an explicit alternative:

<su syn="a">
  <vp>
    <np>I </np>
    gave
    <np id="it">it </np>
    <adp id="mary">to Mary</adp>
  </vp>,
  <bo>that is</bo>,
  <vp>
    <np ed=":">I </np>
    <v ed=":">gave </v>
    <np sb="it">the present </np>
    <adp sb="mary">to my wife</adp>
  </vp>.
</su>

Repair involving gapping is specified by syn="r".

<su syn="r">
  <vp>
    I gave
    <np id="boy">the boy </np>
    <adp id="dog">to the dog</np>
  </vp>,
  <io>oh excuse me</io>,
  <vp>
    <np sb="boy">the dog </np>
    <adp sb="dog">to the boy </adp>
  </vp>
</su>

<np id="X">a man <vp><np opr="obj" eq="X">who </np>
<persnamep>Mary </persnamep>loves </vp></np>

<np id="X">a woman <vp><adp>for <np eq="X">who</np>'s sake </adp>
<persnamep>Tom </persnamep>works </vp></np>

<np id="X">a car <vp><np eq="X" id="W" opr="uba">which </np>
Tom believes that Mary <v obj="W">bought </v></vp></np>

A relative clause is a phrase governed by a noun semantically related with some parts of it. Just like a topicalized sentence, a relative clause with a WH complementizer is regarded as a constituent (typically a <vp> element) whose head is the main verb of the clause; the WH complementizer depends on the main verb.

If the relative clause lacks a WH complementizer, then the relation between the noun governing the relative clause and the pronoun (a gap or a resumptive pronoun) coreferring the governing noun can be encoded by a relational attribute, as below.

<np id="P">
  <n>people </n>
  <vp syn="b"><np>I </np>want to <v obj="P">meet </v></vp>
</np>

<np id="BAR" syn="f">the <n>bar </n> <vp obj="BAR"><np>I </np>love </vp></np>

<np id="X" syn="f">the <n>man </n><vp>I think <vp aen="X">is crazy </vp></vp></np>

<np id="P" syn="b"><adp>the </adp><n>person </n>to <vp obj="P">blame </vp></np>

The relation between the relative pronoun, if any, and the head noun governing the relative clause can be encoded by an eq attribute. The relation between the gap (or resumptive pronoun) in the relative clause and the WH complementizer (`which' and `for whom' in the examples below) can be encoded by relational attribute if necessary, too.

opr="uba" means that `whom' does not semantically depend on `want'.

<np>
  <n>people </n>
  <vp syn="b">
    <np id="X" opr="uba" eq="mcn">whom </n>
    <np>I</np>
    want to
    <v obj="X">meet </v>
  </vp>
</np>

<np syn="b">
  the
  <n>painter </n>
  <vp>
    <np><ad eq="mcn">whose </ad>work </np>
    surprised
    <np>me </np>
  </vp>
</np>

<np>
  the
  <n>man </n>
  <vp>
    <adp id="X" opr="uba.ben">for <np eq="mcn">whom </np></adp>
    <np>I </np>
    can
    <v plg="X">work </v>
  </vp>
</np>

<np>
  the
  <n id="B">book </n>
  <vp syn="b">
    <n id="X" opr="uba" eq="B">which </n>
    <np>I</np>
    have
    <v obj="X">lost </v>
    <adp>before <v obj="X">reading </v></adp>
  </vp>
</np>

the <n>tool </n>
<vp syn="b">
  <adp opr="mns">by <np eq="mcn">which </np></adp>
  to <v>open </v> it
</vp>

<np>
  <n>people </n>
  <vp syn="b"><np>I</np> want to
  <v obj="mcn">meet </v></vp>
</np>

<np syn="f">the <n>bar </n><vp obj="mcn"><np>I </np>love </vp></np>

<np syn="f">the <n>man </n><vp>I think <vp aen="mcn">is crazy </vp></vp></np>

<np syn="b"><adp>the </adp><n>person </n>to <vp obj="mcn">blame </vp></np>

2.5. Topicalization, etc.

Topicalization and other long-distance dependencies are interpreted by relational attributes. Topicalization is regarded as essentially the same structure as relative clause with WH complementizer. Relation identifier uba means that the element has no direct semantic relationship with what it syntactically depends on. So extaposed elements tend to have uba. plg cancels uba.

<su>
  <adp opr="uba.gol" id="X">To her</adp>,
  <v>
    I think
    <vp plg="X">he sent a bouquet</vp>
  </v>.
</su>

<su>
  <np opr="uba" id="X">This </np>
  is
  <ajp>easy <vp>for me to <vp obj="X">reach </vp></vp></ajp>
</su>

<su>
  <np opr="uba" id="WH">What </np>
  <v>do you like to <vp obj="WH">eat</vp></v>?
</su>

Combination of a relative clause and another long-distance dependency:

the <n>piano </n>
<vp>
  <np eq="mcn" id="WH" opr="uba">which </np>
  <np id="S" opr="uba">this sonata </np>
  is easy
  <vp>to make her <v obj="S">play </v><adp arg="WH">with </adp></vp>
</vp>

Gapping in coordination, apposition, and repair can be encoded with the sb (substitution) attribute. When sb appears in a peer term, the parts of the peer terms which neither point nor are pointed by sb are copied to the corresponding loci in the other peer terms.

<su syn="c">
  <vp syn="b">
    <adp id="P">Perhaps </adp>
    <np opr="ctl.obj"><nump id="n">nearly 270 </nump>people </np>
    were
    <v id="k" sit="E">killed </v>
  </vp>
  and
  <vp syn="b" nc="P">
    <nump sb="n">1,400 </nump>
    <vp syn="b" sb="k">reported injured in <np id="E">the earthquake </np></vp>
  </vp>
</su>

Another, less sofisticated, solution to gapping is to interpret gaps more overtly:

<su syn="c">
  <vp syn="b">
    <adp>Perhaps </adp>
    <np><nump>nearly 270 </nump>people </np>
    were killed
    <adp ed=":">in the earthquake </adp>
  </vp>
  and
  <vp syn="b">
    <np><nump>1,400 </nump><n ed=":">people </n></np>
    <v ed=":">were </v>
    reported injured in the earthquake
  </vp>
</su>

Below is another example usage of sb.

<su syn="c">
  <vp syn="b">
    <np syn="b">
      Passengers going to
      <placename id="S">Shinjuku </placename>
    </np>,
    please go to
    <np id="T" syn="b">Track No. 1</np>
  </vp>,
  and
  <vp syn="b">
    <placename sb="S">Ueno</placename>,
    <np syn="b" sb="T">Track No. 3</np>
  </vp>.
</su>

<su syn="c">
  <vp syn="b">
    <np syn="b">
      Passengers going to
      <placename>Shinjuku</placename>
    </np>,
    please go to
    <np syn="b">Track No. 1</np>
  </vp>,
  and
  <vp syn="b">
    <np syn="b">
      <bo syn="b" ed=":">passengers going to </bo>
      <placename>Ueno</placename>,
    </np>
    <bo syn="b" ed=":">please go to </bo>
    <np syn="b">Track No. 3</np>
  </vp>.
</su>

Scopes of quantifiier, negation, modal operator, conditional operator, coordination, plural, and so forth are encoded by the sce (scoping element) attribute.

The sce value of an element A is the id value of another element B such that A is a scope of B. Here A must command B; an element commands another element when the former contains the latter or contains an element which either points at the latter element via a relational attribute or pointed by the latter element via the dep attribute. For instance, the following annotation entails the interpretation that each of three collectors bought one same paining, so that this painting has been bought three times as far as the sentence entails.

<su sce="c3">
  <np id="c3">Three collectors </np>
  have bought <np sce="top">a painting</np>.
</su>

An optionally scope-introducing element, such as `three collectors' and `Tom and Mary,' actually introduces a scope only when pointed via the sce attribute. In the above exmaple, if cse="c3" were absent, the interpretation is that the three men cooperatively bought a car, so that the car was bought once.

The scopes of elements such as `every man' and `Tom or Mary,' which always introduce scopes, are assumed to be the minimal dominating <vp> or <np> elements. For instance,

<su><np syn="c">Tom or Mary </np>came. </su>

For instance, the following means that each of three collectors bought a painting, entailing that three probably distinct paintings were bought.

<su sce="c3"><np id="c3">Three collectors </np>
bought <np sce="c3">a painting</np>.</su>

For another example, the de dicto reading of `Jane wants to marry a doctor,' which entails no specific doctor, is marked up as follows:

Jane <v id="w1">wants </v>to marry <np sce="w1">a doctor</np>.

Similarly, the reading of `every man loves a woman' in which `a woman' is in the outermost situation (that is, one woman is loved by all the men) is encoded by the following annotation:

Every man loves <np sce="top">a woman </np>

<np id="e0">Every man </np>loves <np sce="e0">a woman </np>

under construction

3. General Attributes

The following attributes are globally applicable to all the GDA tags exept <anchor/> and <alt/>. These attributes are all optional. lang, next and prev are straightforward imports from TEI.

id

Unique identifier for the element. The value must begin with a letter and can contain letters, digits, hyphens, and periods.

lang

Language of the text in this element; if not specified, the language is assumed to be the same as in the surrounding context. The value should be a three-letter language identifier in ISO 639-2, such as eng (English) and jpn (Japanese).

resp

The annotator. That is, the person responsible for annotation.

dtp

Description type. The possible values are listed below.

nm

Normal. This is the default value.

sc

Socalled. Word or phrase for which the addressor disclaims responsibility.

qt

Quotation. Used when the quoted material is at the same level of discourse. <q> is used otherwise.

mt

Word or phrase not used but mentioned.

<ajp dtp="mt">Long </ajp>is a short word.

so

Onomatopoeia (sound).

<su dtp="so">Bang! </su>

mn

Miosis (manner).

vi

Icon (vision).

That's great <ij dtp="vi">:-)</ij>.

op

Option.

from <bo dtp="op">(inside of) </bo>the car

em

Emphasis.

That's a <n dtp="em">*common sense*</n>.

next

Next element's id value in an aggregate.

prev

Previous element's id value in an aggregate.

<q id="q1" who="j1" next="q2">`<su id="s1" next="s2">If it rains,</su>'</q>
<np id="j1">John </np> said,
<q id="q2" prev="q1">`<su id="s2" prev="s1"> I won't come.</su>'</q>

dep

An ID attribute pointing to the governor in intrasentential syntactic dependency or intersentential rhetorical dependency. If dep points to something belonging to an upper context, the element having this dep attribute is an insertion from that context.

sbu

The id values of the child elements which does not explicitly occur in the current element (sub-utterances). Used to encode ambiguity typically in output of automatic analysis by computers.

cocu

Concurrent utterance. An IDREFS attribute. Span tags (<span>, <bspan>, and <espan>) are used if cuncurrent utterances are not discourse or syntactic consituents.

coiu

Coinitial utterance. An IDREFS attribute. Span tags are used when coinitial utterances begin in the middle of words.

err

Possibility of tagging error. Mainly intended for automated annotation. Typical usages and their meanings follow:
err="t" (tag name is questionable)
err="b" (position of begin tag is questionable)
err="e" (position of end tag is questionable)
err="a opr" (opr attribute is questionable)
err="?a opr" (combination of opr and element is questionable)
err="tb" (tag name and position of begin tag is questionable)

The syn attribute below can appear in every tag except <anchor/> and <alt/>.

syn

Synthesis. Type of syntactic or pragmatic construction among the child elements and texts. The possible values are the following.

n

No relation among child elements.

d

Dependency. The default value of the syn attribute for intrasentential tags in any language. If an element has value d for the syn attribute, then tags can be inserted into its child texts so that the following conditinos hold.

1. Each child is either an element or a symbol (such as comma and period).
2. An empty head element must be created if all the existing children are phrasal elements and symbols.
3. There is exactly one child non-phrasal element which does not depend on any other element.
4. Each of the other elements depends on a non-phrasal element.

Note that the dependencies in an element whose syn value is d are not in general uniquely determined. In

<np><aj>American </aj><n>stock </n><n>holder </n></np>

for instance, the three child elements may have arbitrary dependency relations under the above conditions. Two readings are possible which respect the English syntax: stock holder who is American and holder of American stock.

The first in the examples below means that I have boiled several eggs, wheres the latter means that I have several boiled eggs.

<su><np>I </np>have <vp><v>boiled </v><np>eggs</np></vp>.</su>

<su><np>I </np>have <np><vp>boiled </vp><n>eggs</n></np>.<su>

f

Forward dependency chain. If an element has syn="f", then it is possible to insert tags into its child texts so that the following conditions hold.

1. Each child is either an element or a symbol (such as comma and period).
2. The elements created by the insertion of tags are not empty, except that an empty head copular element must be created if all the existing children are phrasal elements and symbols.
3. The created elements lack dep and sb attributes.
4. There is exactly one child non-phrasal element which does not depend on any other element.
5. Each of the other elements depends on the nearest non-phrasal element to its right if any, and otherwise the nearest non-phrasal element to its left.

Each child element is interpreted as lacking dep and sb attributes unless they are explicitly specified. So syn="f" uniquely determines the dependency relationships among the child elements, unlike syn="d". Note that the non-phrasal elements mentioned above may be either head elements or non-intrasentential elements such as <p> and <ss>.

The following Russian example shows how to use the latter half of condition 2 above. Note that an empty head copular element must be assumed to be there because the existing children are phrasal elements and a symbol.

<su lang="rus" syn="f"><np>Eta </np>	<np>dom</np>.</su>
<su lang="rus" syn="f"><np>this	<np>house
`This is a house.'

b

Backward dependency chain. The reversal of f. If an element has syn="b", then it is possible to insert tags into its child texts so that the following conditions hold.

1. Each child is either an element or a symbol (such as comma and period).
2. The elements created by the insertion of tags are not empty, except that an empty head copular element must be created if all the existing children are phrasal elements and symbols.
3. The created elements lack dep and sb attributes.
4. There is exactly one child non-phrasal element which does not depend on any other element.
5. Each of the other elements depends on the nearest non-phrasal element to its left if any, and otherwise the nearest non-phrasal element to its right.

Each child element is interpreted as lacking dep and sb attributes unless they are explicitly specified. So syn="b" uniquely determines the dependency relationships among the child elements, just as syn="f". Again the non-phrasal elements mentioned above may be either head elements or non-intrasentential elements such as <p> and <ss>.

In an element whose syn value is one of the following (c, a, r, e, and i), each child element must be either a peer term or an operator element (an <fo>, <bfo>, <bo>, <fbo>, or <io> element). So the following annotation is wrong, because `came here' is a peer term but `came' and `here' are not.

Kim <v syn="c"><v opr="pre">came </v> <adp>here </adp>and left</v>.

Below are right annotations.

Kim <v syn="c"><v opr="pre">came here </v>and left</v>.

Kim ate <np syn="c">bread, <bo>though </bo>not egg</np>.

<np id="sk" syn="c"><bo>Instead of </bo>Sue, Kim </np>came. 

c

Coordination.

A coordination may be collective or distributive. For instance, the below example means either that Tom and Mary got married with each other (collective reading), or that Tom got married with somebody and Mary got married with somebody else (distributive reading).

<su><np syn="c">Tom and Mary </np>got married. </su>

The following annotation means that 'two hours and a half' is two hours plus half an hour.

<np syn="c"><n>two hours </n>and <n>a half </n></np>

When the peer terms which are children of an element with syn="c" do not have relation identifiers, the entire element refers to the sum (agglegation) of the referents of the peer terms.

When the peer terms which are children of an element with syn="c" have relation identifiers, the chid elements semantically depend on the governer of the entire element.

<n>route </n>
<adp syn="c">
  <adp opr="int">from London </adp>
  <adp opr="fin">to Paris </adp>
</adp>

Compare:

<v>
  go
  <adp opr="src">from London </ad>
  <adp opr="gol">to Paris </adp>
</v>

Dates and times are not marked with syn="c".

<timep><time>two </time> <time>thirty </time></timep>

a

Apposition.

<su syn="a">
  <vp>I introduced <np id="M">Mary </np><adp id="S">to Sue</adp></vp>,
  that is,
  <vp><np sb="M">my girlfrend </np><adp sb="S">to my wife</adp></vp>.
</su>

r

Repair.

<su>
  <vp>
    I gave
    <persname id="M">Mary </persname>
    <adp id="D">to the dog</adp>
  </vp>,
  <io>oh I'm sorry</io>,
  <vp>
    <np sb="M">the dog </np>
    <adp sb="D">to Mary </adp>
  </vp>.
</su>

e

Error. Repair of a special sort in which the last peer term contains an error.

The following attributes are applicable to all the intrasentential tags (tags for intrasentential contents).

sem

Word sense, or more precisely a semantic class which the referent of the element belongs to. The value is one or more concept strings.

opr

Operator. The value is one or more concept strings.

cp

Copy. An IDREFS attribute. The content of the referenced element is virtually copied Ellipses of phrasal constituents should be interpreted not by cp but by relational attributes.

`Tom <v id="cm1">came</v>.' `Who <v cp="cm1"/>?'

nc

No copy. An IDREFS attribute. A nc attribute must be in a tag with a cp attribute.

strict

Strict identity. An IDREFS attribute. A strict attribute must be in a tag with a cp attribute. The following example means that Bill loves Tom's wife.

<su id="TLHW">
  <np id="T">Tom </np>
  loves
  <np id="W"><adp eq="T">his </adp>wife</np>.
</su>

<su cp="TLHW" strict="W">So does <np sb="T">Bill</np>.</su>

sloppy

Sloppy identity. An IDREFS attribute. A sloppy attribute must be in a tag with a cp attribute.

sb

Substitusion. An IDREF attribute. Specifies substitution between corresponding elements in abstraction and instantiation. The sb attribute can appear either in a grandchild element of an element whose syn values is one of c, a, r, and e, or in a child element with a cp attribute.

sce

Scoping element. An IDREFS attribute. Points at the element introducing the smallest scope containing the present element. If an element X has an sce attribute pointing at X or one of its descendants, then the scope contains no elments outside X. So an element pointing at itself by sce such as below lacks a scope.

<su><np syn="c" sce="self">Tom and Mary </np>got married. </su>

pco

Parallel correspondence. An IDREFS attribute. Connects elements with the same scope.

ed

Edition by the annotator. The value is a colon followed by the string in the original document which has been replaced with the text content of the element. In the following example, `do that' has been inserted.

I will <vp ed=":">do that</vp>.

orth

Orthography. Correction of spelling and speech errors.

<n orth="enough">enuff </n>

abbr

Class of abbreviation. Its default value is none. Other values include contraction, suspension, brevigraph, superscription, and acronym, which means that the element is an abbreviation.

expan

Expansion of abbreviation. The presence of this attribute means that the element is an abbreviation.

<orgname expan="Electrotechnical Laboratory" abbr="acronym">ETL </orgname>

pron

Pronunciation.

<n pron="meetee">MITI </n>

Hereafter the addressor means not only the agent of a speech, but also the author of a written passage, the thinker of a thought, the performer of a sign language or a gesture, and so on, where the speech, the passage, the thought, etc. appear as tagged elements in the document. Similarly, the addressee means the recipient of them intended by the addressor.

A referential index is a name. A referential index usually refers to the element which has it as the id value. There are special referential indices which are not the id value of any element. We will call them deictic indices. Different occurrences of the same deictic index may refer to different things in one GDA file. For instance, fwd refers to the element or text subsequent to the element containing it, so that two occurrences of fwd in two distinct elements must refer to diferent things. The deictic indices are p0 (generic people, such as `your' in `Love your neighbor.'), p1 (first person (addressor) singular, or `I/my/me'), p1p (first person plural, or `we/our/us'), p1i (first person plural including second person), p1x (first person plural excluding second person), p2 (second person (addressee) singular), p2p (second person plural), nil (nothing), top (entire discourse), self (the element itself), fwd (forward), bwd (backward), and mcn (minimal container noun).

Tags defined in the GDA tag set follow.

<gda>

The whole document. A GDA document must be one <gda> element following some header elements except when embedded in an HTML or other file.

<dv>

Subdivision of document.

type

Conventional name of the division. The standard values are part, chapter, section, and subsection, but any other character string is also possible for the value.

<h> <h1> ··· <h6>

Title of the division. <title> is not used here, because HTML browsers hide <title> elements. A <dv> may contain an <h> or <hj>. <h>, which is undefined in HTML, can be used to avoid HTML formatting effects.

<p>

Paragraph.

<ss>

Sequence of sentences.

<q>

Quotation and citation including direct speech, thought, etc. A <q> element contains the quotation marks or their equivalents, if any. <q> elements do not have to be syntactic constituents.

type

Type of the content matter, such as speech or thought. The values may be spoken, written, thought, sign (for sign language), and gesture.

In the following example, `YES' is interpreted as printed on the button, as if the button were saying 'YES.'

Press the <q>`YES' </q>button.

The following tags represent structures in sentences, and called intrasentential tags. Elements with those tags are called intrasentential elements. Among them, phrasal tags are <su>, <ij> and tags whose name end with `p' (except <p> above, which represent paragraph) such as <np> and <vp>. Elements with phrasal tags are called phrasal elements. Phrasal elements represent maximal projections, which cannot be heads of larger constituents. No elements can syntactically depend on them, except when stipulated by the dep attribute. Head tags are the other intrasentential tags, such as <n> and <v>. Elements with head tags are called head elements. They can be heads in dependency structures without being specified by the dep attribute.

<su>

Sentential unit. A piece of utterance which has no direct syntactic relation with other utterances except stipulated by the dep attribute.

<segs>

Sequence of syntactic constituents without direct syntactic relations with each other. The default value for syn is n.

<seg> <segp>

Subsentential segment, which is a syntactic constituent. Used when the constituent cannot or need not be categorized by any of the following tags.

I <seg>saw a girl </seg>with a telescope.

<n> <np>

Noun and noun phrase.

<v> <vp>

Verb, verb phrase, and sentence.

<su>I <v>want <vp>to <vp>sleep </vp></vp></v>.</su>

Note that `want to sleep' must not be <vp> but <v>, because it is the head of the whole sentence.

<aj> <ajp>

Adjective and adjective phrase.

<ad> <adp>

Adverb, adverbial phrase, adnoun, adnominal phrase, preposition, prepositional phrase, postposition, postpositional phrase, determiner, determiner phrase, complementizer, and complement sentence.

<np><ad>the </ad><n>man </n></np>

<ij>

Interjection. <ij> elements do not participate in dependency relations.

<date> <datep>

Date.

value

Value of the date in the format of Iso 8601.

<time> <timep>

Time of day.

value

Value of the time in the format of ISO 8601.

<period> <periodp>

Duration.

value

Value of the duration in the format of ISO 8601.

<name> <namep>

Proper noun or noun phrase.

type

Type of the object referred to. The value is a concept identifier.

<persname> <persnamep>

Name of person.

<name>Mr. <persname>Brown </persname></name>

<orgname> <orgnamep>

Name of organization.

<placename> <placenamep>

Name of place.

<geogname> <geognamep>

Name of geographical object such as mountain, river, sea, etc.

<num> <nump>

Number.

type

Type of numeric value. The values include int, real, float, ordinal, fraction, and percentage.

value

Value of the number in a standard form.

<num type="int" value="21">twenty one </num>
<num type="percentage" value="10">10% </num>

<num type="ordinal" value="2">second </num>

<num type="fraction" value="1/3">one third </num>

<address> <addr> <addrp>

Postal address. HTML browsers italicize <address> elements by default. <addr> should be used to avoid that effect.

<bibref>

Bibliographic reference. A phrasal tag.

<np>Incompleteness Theorem <bibref>(Goedel, 1931) </bibref></np>

<bo>, <bfo>, <fo>, <fbo>, or <io> are called operator tags, and elements they enclose are operator elements. Operator elements are operators of coordination, apposition, or repair, when their parent elements'syn values are c, a, r, or e.

<bo>

Backward affixing operator. Its default value for syn attribute is bc, and its rightmost child head element is the head of a larger constituent involving some material on the right. A <bo> element is not a syntactic constituent when it contains more than one non-phrasal children.

work <bo sem="pur">in order to </bo> live

A <bfo> element is an operator of coordination, apposition, repair, or error, when its parent element's syn value is c, a, r, or e.

<v syn="c">weaken, <bo>rather than </bo>strengthen</v>, <np>the control </np>

<bfo>

Backward-affixing forward-depending operator. The child elements can depend forward on an external governor. <bfo> is a phrasal tag. A <bfo> element is not necessarily a linguistic constituent. An <bfo> element is an operator of coordination, apposition, or repair, when its parent element's syn value is c, a, or r

<su>
  <np syn="c">
    <bfo>Not only </bfo>
    <persname>Tom </persname>
    <bfo>but also </bfo>
    <persname>Mary </persname>
  </np>
  came.
</su>

<fo>

Forward affixing operator. Its default value for syn attribute is fc, and its leftmost child head element is the head of a larger constituent involving some material on the left. An <fo> element is not a syntactic constituent when it contains of more than one non-phrasal children. An <fo> element is an operator of coordination, apposition, or repair, when its parent element's syn value is c, a, or r

<fbo>

Forward-affixing backward-depending operator. The child elements can depend backward on external governor. <fbo> is a phrasal tag. An <fbo> element is not a linguistic constituent when more than one of its child elements depend on external heads. An <fbo> element is an operator of coordination, apposition, or repair, when its parent element's syn value is c, a, or r

<io>

Infix operator of coordinate, appositive, and repair structure whose default value for syn attribute is n. An <io> element is an operator of coordination, apposition, or repair, when its parent element's syn value is c, a, or r

<su>
  <np syn="c">
    <persname>Tom </persname>
    <io>and </io>
    <persname>Mary </persname>
  </np>
  got married.
</su>

<p> and the tags thereafter are called intradivisional tags. <su> and the tags thereafter are called intrasentential tags. The following table shows elements of which tags (in the left) can contain which tags (in the right) as children (not descendants in general).

parent child <gda>, <dv> and <q> all tags except <gda> <h> and <hi> intradivisional tags <p> and <ss> <ss>, phrasal tags, and <q> intrasentential tags <q> and intrasentential tags

The following tags are used to encode ambiguities. In GDA, these tags are usually not manually handled, but instead automatically processed by computers. The elements of these tags are all empty, and can appear anywhere in the document. These tags except <anchor/> are called link tags. Link elements (elements with link tags) are children of other elements only when they are referred to via the dtrs attribute.

<anchor/>

Anchor point. The <anchor/> element must have id attribute, and assigns an identifier to a point in the document.

<alt/>

Alternatives.

targets

The id values of the alternatives.

weights

The percentage probabilities of the corresponding alternatives.

content

id values of <anchor/> elements. The content attribute specifies the virtual content of the element. For instance, the virtual content of <alt content="n0 n1 s0 s1" targets="v1 v2"> is `The idea' plus `that I should go' if the following text is in the same document file.

<anchor id="n0"/>The idea <anchor id="n1"/>
occurred to me <anchor id="s0"/>that I should go <anchor id="s1"/>.

In general, the virtual content of an element with attribute content="id₁ ··· id_2n" is the aggregate of regions between the <anchor/> elements with id values id_2i-1 and id_2i for i from 1 to n. content="id₁ ··· id_2n+1" is equivalent to content="id₁ ··· id_2n+1 id_2n+1".

<su dtrs="va0">I <anchor id="a0"/>saw <anchor id="a1"/> the girl
<anchor id="a2"/>with a telescope <anchor id="a3"/>.</su>
<alt id="va0" content="a0 a3" targets="vp1 vp2"/>
<v id="vp1" dtrs="np1"/>
<v id="vp2" dtrs="vp3 pp1"/>
<n id="np1" content="a1 a3" dtrs="pp1"/>
<v id="vp3" content="a0 a2"/>
<ad id="pp1" content="a2 a3"/>

Relation identifiers represent primitive binary relations between dependent elements and governing (depended) elements, and include grammatical functions, thematic roles, and rhetorical relations. The distinction among these three types of relations is often vague. For instance, LOCATION counts as both a grammatical function and a thematic role. Although CAUSE is usually regarded as a rhetorical relation, it can also serve as a thematic role of phrases such as `due to lack of money.' This is why we conflate grammatical functions, thematic roles, and rhetorical relations. Among the values introduced below, cau, cnc, cnd, and so on, serve as both rhetorical relations and thematic roles.

A purpose of relation identifiers is to associate complement elements (subjects, objects, indirect objects, and so forth) with the corresponding arguments of verbs, adjectives, etc. To fulfill this, we employ a rather standard approach: the association is specified by marking elements with grammatical functions such as SUBJECT and OBJECT (sbj and obj below, respectively), provided that we have a dictionary containing the argument structures of verbs and so on. In many languages, there is usually no need to explicitly markup complements such as subjects objects, and indirect objects, because their grammatical functions are obvious from the surface forms and hence their thematic roles can be inferred from the dictionary. When the verb has multiple argument structures, such as with `Tom opens the door' (where `Tom' is the agent) and `The key opens the door' (where `the key' is the instrument), we can either markup the subject noun phrases with the thematic role or markup the verb in terms of the argument structure. Also, by using grammatical functions we do not have to worry about whether the subject of buy should be AGENT or RECIPIENT, for example.

The rest of the purpose of relation identifiers is to resolve ambiguities of both the thematic roles of adjunct elements, which are typically prepositions and postpositions, and the rhetorical relations which are not explicitly marked. To attain this, we must simply markup the elements in question with thematic roles and rhetorical relations. However, the exhaustive listing of thematic roles and rhetorical relations appears impossible, as widely recognized. We are not yet sure about how many thematic roles and rhetorical relations are sufficient for engineering applications such as machine translation, but as mentioned before, the appropriate granularity of classification will be determined by the current level of technology.

The relation identifers are enumerated below in several clusters.

5.1. Grammatical Function

arg

Primary or unique argument, such as the arguments of auxiliary verbs and prepositions. Used as relational attribute only. The concrete relation between the first and the second argument of arg is entailed by the governor. Morphological dependencies (such as the one between a preposition/postposition and its complement) are characterized by arg, but they need not be explicitly annotated so. The relation of the argument as to a relational noun is arg, too.

a friend <ad sem="arg">of </ad> mine

which <ad sem="arg">of </ad> them

mod

modification. The concrete relation between the first and the second argument of mod is entailed by the depender. Adverbs and demonstrative pronous have mod. So they need not be annotated with respect to the relation idenfitier. A relative clause should have opr="mod" when the role of the head noun in the relative clause is not annotated with a relational attribute.

ctl

Controller.

He promised <np opr="ctl.exp">me </np><vp opr="cnt">to be permitted </vp>

xpl

Expletive complement.

<np opr="xpl">It </np> is easy to do.

<np opr="xpl">There </np> lived a man in this house.

uba

Unbounded argument, which means that the element has no direct semantic relation with the governing element.

plg

Plug. Used in a relational attribute, as the last component or a component just in front of ppa, and selects the governor node of the element pointed by the relational attribute. That is, let x be the referent of an element with relational attribute A.plg="Y" or A.plg.ppa="Y", and y be the governor node of the element pointed by this relational attribute (i.e., the element with id="Y"), then x A y holds.

<su>
  <adp id="K" opr="uba.ben">For Kim</adp>,
  <v syn="b"><np>I</np>have <v plg="K">worked </v>hard</v>.
</su>

ppa

Permanent predicate ambiguity. Used as the last compoment of a relational attribute. In the example below, whether `slowly' depends on `walk' or `talking' cannot be determined.

<vp syn="ba"><v ppa="SLOWLY">walk </v> talking
<adp id="SLOWLY">slowly </adp></vp>

5.2. Participant

agt

Agent of action.

<su><np opr="agt">Tom </np>came. </su>

obj

Object of action or event.

Mary beats <np opr="obj">her husband</np>.

res

Result, which is another special case of obj. A resulting event or object.

Tom is gone, <adp opr="res">so that I'm alone</adp>.

Sue built <np opr="res">a house</np>.

Kim turned the car <adp opr="res">to garbage</adp>.

src

Source. The second argument of src is the initial position or state of the entity denoted by the subject or object of the verb denoting the first argument of src.

get it <adp opr="src">from him </adp>

gol

Goal. The second argument of gol is the final position or state of the entity denoted by the subject or object of the verb denoting the first argument of gol.

give <np opr="gol">him </np> the book

rpt

Reciprocal partner.

Tom had a date <ad sem="agt.rpt">with </ad> Mary.

mix sugar <ad sem="obj.rpt">with </ad> salt

rcp

Reciprocity. Almost equivalent with the conjunction of eq and rpt. For instance, "agt.rcp" is almost equal to "agt agt.rpt". The second argument of rcp must be a set of plural things.

<np opr="agt.rcp">Tom and Mary </np> got married.

mix <np opr="obj.rcp">sugar and salt </ad>

similarity <ad sem="obj.rcp">of </ad> the two

ben

Beneficiary. Different from gol (which specifies destination only) and pur (which concerns event). Expressible with `for the sake of,' though it may mean pur as well.

I gave <np opr="gol">him </np> a book
<adp sem="ben">for <np>her </np>sake </adp>

a present <adp opr="gol ben">for you</adp>

exp

Experiencer.

It seems <adp opr="exp">to me </adp> that he left.

jnt

Joint participant in the event.

You came <adp opr="agt.jnt">with her</adp>.

pos

Possessor.

a daughter <adp opr="pos">of mine </adp>

5.3. Apposition

ela

Elaboration.

<ss>Tom is gone. <su opr="ela">He escaped. </su></ss>

sum

Summary.

eg

Example.

expensive cars <adp opr="eg">such as Mercedez </adp>

cnt

Content of thought, belief, speech, promise, rumor, plan, request, and so forth.

<np>plan <vp opr="cnt">to visit Tokyo </vp></np>

ask <np opr="exp">her </np> <adp opr="cnt">for a date </adp>

the <n>fact <adp opr="cnt">that you're here </adp></n>

persuade him <vp opr="cnt">to go </vp>

5.4. Causality and Reasoning

cau

Cause, reason, or motivation.

<ss><su opr="cau">Tom came. </su>
<su>Mary was surprised. </su></ss>

I went home <adp opr="cau">because I was sleepy </adp>

He died <adp opr="cau">of cancer</adp>.

pur

Purpose.

I went there <vp opr="pur">to see her</vp>.

cnd

Condition.

I'll come <adp opr="cnd">if you're there </adp>

cnc

Concession.

<ss><su opr="cnc">Tom came. </su><su>Mary wasn't surprised. </su></ss>

cntrst

Contrast.

<ss>Tom came. <su opr="cntrst">However, Bill left. </su></ss>

5.5. Spatiotemporal Relation

tmx

Temporal extension.

I was asleep <adp opr="tmx">during his talk</adp>.

`During his talk' in `I slept during his talk' has opr="tim" rather than opr="tmx", if the intended interpretation does not entail that I was sleeping all during his talk.

tim

Temporal location. Equivalent to tmx.sup.

I was born <ad opr="tim">in </ad> 1958.

pre

Precedence.

She came <ad opr="pre">after <ad> he arrived.

pst

Postcedence.

coc

Cooccurrence.

eating <ad sem="coc">while </ad> driving

spx

Spatial extension.

loc

Location (typically spatial). Equivalant to spx.sup. This entails spatial inclusion (for instance, `walk in the garden' entails that the walking event is spatially included in the garden). [Should we markup metaphoric usages?]

live <ad opr="loc">in </ad> Tokyo

ilc

Iinternal location.

hang <ad sem="ilc">on </ad> a bar

cut <ad sem="ilc">at </ad> the center

via

Intermediate location.

exit <ad sem="via">from </ad> the window

go <ad sem="via">through </ad> the tunnel

climb <np opr="via">a mountain </np>

pass <ad sem="via">by </ad> a bridge

dir

Direction.

I walked <adp opr="dir">to the north</adp>.

opp

Opposit direction.

keep yourself <ad sem="opp">from </ad> the evil

independent <ad sem="opp">of </ad> her parents

int

Initial point of the event or the object, according to some partial ordering.

stay here <adp opr="tmx.int">from tomorrow </adp>

fin

Final point of the event or the object according to some partial ordering.

keep drinking <adp opr="tmx.fin">until next morning </adp>

stx

Stative or situational extension.

sit

State or situation. Equivalent to stx.sup.

play a role <adp opr="sit">in a ceremony </adp>

txx

Taxonomic extension.

in

Inclusion or membership in concepts or sets. Synonym of txx.sup.

Dog is <np opr="in">animal</np>.

Guernica is <np opr="in">his work</np>.

This is <np opr="in">beer</np>.

a <ajp opr="in">female </ajp> doctor

5.6. Logical Relation

eq

Equivalence.

New York <ad opr="app">or </ad> Big Apple

and

Conjunction.

or

Disjunction.

xor

Exclusive disjunction.

sup

Includer of any sort: superset as to subset, whole as to part, set as to element.

sub

Subset, part, or element. Inverse of sup.

5.7. Other Semantic Relation

ccm

Circumstance.

go out <adp opr="ccm">with a book in hand </adp>

met

Metonymy. In the following example, obj.eq="mcn" means that it is exactly the ham sandwitch that is the most expensive, and opr="agt.met" that the thing which is gone is something which stands in a metonymic relation with that ham sandwitch, such as the person who ordered it.

<np opr="agt.met">The most <aj obj.eq="mcn">expensive </aj>ham sandwitch </np> is gone.

When more concrete relation identifiers are applicable, they should be used instead of met. For instance, part-whole relations should be encoded by sub and sup, and possetion by pos.

bsc

Base of symmetric comparison.

resemble <np opr="bsc">his father </np>

different <ad opr="bsc">from </ad> the promise

say the same thing as <np opr="bsc-agt">I </np>

cmp

Base of degree comparison.

as tall <adp opr="cmp">as Bill </adp>

taller <adp opr="cmp">than Bill </adp>

sim

Similarity.

dance <ad opr="sim">like </ad> a butterfly

bas

Basis or principle on which to do the action in question.

judge <adp opr="bas">accroding to the law </adp>

cev

Criterion of evaluation.

These shoes are too small <adp opr="cev">for me </adp>

who

Addressor as to utterance. Imported from TEI. The first argument must be utterance rather than the uttering event. So it is wrong to attach opr="who" to `Tom' in `Tom says that he is hungry.' Below are some examples of correct usage.

<su>
  <np opr="who">(Tom) </np>
  <q><su><np eq="p1">I </np>am hungry. </su></q>
</su>

<q who="TOM"><su><np eq="p1">I </np>'m hungry.</su></q>

<bo sem="who">According to </bo> the police, the criminal escaped.

When who is used as a relational attribute and it points to an upper context (e.g., who="top"), the utterance is a note by the addressor of that context (in case of who="top", the the author of the entire document).

<q>`<su><adp who="top">(Tom is)</adp>crazy. </su>'</q>

<q>`<su>Th <su who="top">(laughter)</su>at's funny. </su>'</q>

whm

Addressee as to utterance. The first argument must be utterance rather than the uttering event. The utterance is a monologue if it has whm="p1". The discourse below means that Tom told the author to come:

<np id="tom">Tom </np>said. <q who="tom" whm="p1">`Come.'</q>

mns

Means or instrument.

survive <ad sem="mns">by </ad> eating grasses

paint <ad sem="mns">with </ad> a brush

mat

Material.

made <ad sem="mat">of</np> wood

msr

Measure.

weigh <np opr="msr"><nump opr="msr">two </nump>kilograms </np>

mob

Measured object (inverse of msr).

<np>two cups <ad sem="mob">of </ad>tea </np>

ql

Qualification.

I scolded her <ad sem="ql">as </ad>her father. 

sbm

Subject matter.

talk <ad sem="sbm">about </ad>it. 

uni

Unit of measure.

work three days <np opr="uni">a week </np>

und

Understand.

nun

Not understand.

rpl

Reply.

rpw

Reply WH.

rpy

reply YES.

rpn

Reply NO.

acc

Accept.

rej

Reject.

hld

Hold.

6.1. Forward-Looking Communicative Functions

stt

Statement.

ord

Order.

req

Request.

ofr

Offer.

cmt

Commitment or promise.

qyn

YES/NO query.

qw

WH query.

cnv

Convention, including greetings.

smn

Summon.

exc

Exclamation.

abu

Abuse.

blm

Blame.

6.2. Reference Types

Not only noun phrases but also verb phrases, sentences, and so on refer to objects, events, states of affairs, and so on. Here we introduce attributes to classify such references.

gn

Generic or attributive.

<np opr="gn">Dinosaurs </np>are extinct. 

dance like <np opr="gn">a butterfly </np>

sg

Singular.

Give me <np opr="sg">your fish</np>.

pt

Partitive.

Give me <np opr="pt">water</np>.

pl

Plural.

du

Dual.

plgn

Plural generic.

<np opr="plgn">These cars </np>are expensive. 

(Several models of cars are entailed here.)

dugn

Dual generic.

In a generic reading, the predication concerns (default properties of) the whole kind referred to by the noun phrase in question. An accidental universal quantification, such as with `I know (all) the Emperors of Japan,' does not qualify as a generic reading. We do not distinguish the two types of generic reading: those such as with `Chickens evolved from dinosaurs' and those such as with `Chickens lay eggs.' This distinction is captured by classifying the predicates.

individual vs. stage reading?

6.3. Tense and Aspect

Most langauges have grammaticized marking of tense, but for instance Chinese lack tense marking so that tense tagging will be of a great benefit in Chinese. Perhaps no language lacks grammaticized aspect marking, but aspect tagging could be useful in some cases.

past

Past, including historical present.

Brutus <v opr="past">murders </v> Caesar.

pres

Present.

He <v opr="pres">could do it</v>.

futr

Future.

Aspects are interpreted with the following unary operator identifiers:

tel

Telic.

prf

Perfect.

npt

Non-perfect telic.

atel

Atelic.

prog

Progressive.

stat

Stative.

under construction

7. Others

stl politeness

under construction