[Attempto] compound adverbs in ACE

[Gabriele Kahlout]

2010/7/12 Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>

>
> 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.".
>
> Very-carefully would be just another adverb like in italian for example one
adds "issimo" to emphasize a lot. Then an expression like:
If someone drives Xissimo the he drives X. should do.

Though accepting very-carefully as the only solution would be a sacrifice.
Is the problem of parsing extremely carefully one of
concept/impossibility/technical difficulty or just time/priority?

Regards.
>
>   --- nef




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Regards,
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