[Attempto] APE bug?

[Kenneth Jones]

Kaarel,

Thank you for the careful analysis and the useful tips for improving the
expression of my intent in ACE. Your feedback is, as always, much
appreciated and very valuable.

-- Ken

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:57, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > But in order to get rid of NP-conjunction (because it behaves
> > confusingly in the context of 'of') but still be able to express
> > ordered items you could use lists ([..]) or the concatenation operator
> > & (which seems appropriate for your sentence anyway).
>
> small correction: using NP-conjunction for ordered items (such as the
> elements of a concatenation) is incorrect anyway because on the
> DRS-level, the surface order of the NP-conjunction elements is lost.
> For example, the paraphraser (which essentially verbalizes the DRS) is
> allowed to paraphrase
>
> (1) There are a man and a dog.
>
> as
>
> (2) There are a dog and a man.
>
> --
> kaarel
>
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