[Attempto] Can subordinate sentences be subjects?
Joshua TAYLOR
tayloj at cs.rpi.edu
Mon Jan 10 18:21:45 CET 2011
Hello all,
Is there a way in ACE to have a subordinate sentence be the subject of
a sentence? One can easily be made the object, as in
"John believes that Mary likes John." ==>
[A,B]
predicate(A,believe,named(John),B)-1/2
B
[C]
predicate(C,like,named(Mary),named(John))-1/5
but I'm wondering if there's any way to achieve something like this:
"That Mary likes John happens." ==>
[A,B]
predicate(A,happen,B)
B
[C]
predicate(C,like,named(Mary),named(John))
By my reading of the Syntax Report, I don't see anything like this, so
I expect that the answer is "no", but I'd be delighted to learn that
there is.
Thanks in advance,
Joshua Taylor
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