<div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/12 Norbert E. Fuchs <<a href="mailto:fuchs@ifi.uzh.ch">fuchs@ifi.uzh.ch</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> 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? </div>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.". </blockquote><div>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? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Regards. --- nef</blockquote></div> -- Regards, K. Gabriele --- unchanged since 25/1/10 --- P.S. Unless a notification (LON), please reply either with an answer OR with " ACK" appended to this subject within 48 hours. Otherwise, I might resend. In(LON, this) ∨ In(48h, TimeNow) ∨ ∃x. In(x, MyInbox) ∧ IsAnswerTo(x, this) ∨ (In(subject(this), subject(x)) ∧ In(ACK, subject(x)) ∧ ¬IsAnswerTo(x,this)) ⇒ ¬IResend(this). Also note that correspondence may be received only from specified a priori senders, or if the subject of this email ends with a code, eg. -LICHT01X, then also from senders whose reply contains it. ∀x. In(x, MyInbox) ⇒ In(senderAddress(x), MySafeSenderList) ∨ (∃y. In(y, subject(this) ) ∧ In(y,x) ∧ isCodeLike(y, -LICHT01X) ).