[Attempto] compound adverbs in ACE

[Norbert E. Fuchs]

On 12 Jul 2010, at 18:36, Gabriele Kahlout wrote:

> In the troubleshooting guide the following example is given:
> 
> Adverbs that modify other adverbs are not supported in ACE.
> 
> *John drives extremely carefully.
> In order to modify a verb with two or more adverbs, you must coordinate them, e.g.
> 
> John drives extremely and carefully.
> 
> But John drives extremely/very and carefully makes no sense in English. (It works for  A customer inserts a card carefully and manually.). 
> 
> I thought one way could be  a:very-carefully (1-word adverb), though that's not english.
> Are there other ways? Reading through the documentation it doesn't seem to?

You are right, the example "John drives extremely and carefully." is not very felicitous in any language. It was motivated by the preceding example.

APE has no problems accepting adverbs like "very-carefully", and generating the appropriate DRS. There may be problems, though, when you try to derive "John drives carefully." from "John drives very-carefully.".

Regards.

   --- nef