[Attempto] Why are these 2 sentences incorrect for APE ?

[Vijay Saraswat]

Would we be able to fix the grammar so that these are acceptable:

 > John has money.
 > John sells goods.

Arguably, |John sells some goods| is implied by |John sells goods|, but 
not the other way around.

Arguably, if a human knows |John sells goods|, s/he would conclude that 
the probability of |John teaches category theory| is low.

i.e. |John sells goods| tells the listener what John does for a living, 
whereas |John sells some goods| is compatible with him doing so casually.

On 6/19/16 5:05 PM, Mohammed Nasri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you Kaarel.
>
>
> ---------------
> Sincères salutations
> Mohammed NASRI
>
> 2016-06-19 20:01 GMT+00:00 Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kaljurand at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     every noun must be preceded by a determiner in ACE, e.g. this syntax
>     is accepted:
>
>     John has some money. John sells some goods.
>
>     [A,B,C,D]
>     object(A,money,mass,na,na,na)-1/4
>     predicate(B,have,named(John),A)-1/2
>     object(C,good,countable,na,geq,2)-2/4
>     predicate(D,sell,named(John),C)-2/2
>
>     See also http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/docs/ace_troubleshooting.html
>     (which contains: "Every noun needs a determiner.", "Do not use nouns
>     without a determiner.")
>
>     Best,
>     Kaarel
>
>     On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Mohammed Nasri
>     <mohammed.nasri at gmail.com <mailto:mohammed.nasri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Can anyone tell me please why are the two following sentences
>     incorrent for
>     > APE ?
>     >
>     > John has money.
>     > John sells goods.
>     >
>     > Thank you.
>     >
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>     > Mohammed NASRI
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