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Tb-triple Supporting sentence
língua hypernym-of alemão As iniciativas deste gabinete passam geralmente pela
promoção de conferências, exposições, workshops e aulas
de línguas, como o inglês, alemão ou japonês.
(language hypernym-of german) (The initiatives of this office are generally for the promotion of con-
ferences, exhibitions, workshops and classes in languages like English,
German or Japanese.)
ciência hypernym-of paleontologia A paleontologia é uma ciência que depende do que se
descobre.
(science hypernym-of paleontology) (Paleontology is a science that depends on its own discoveries.)
rua part-of quarteirão De resto, o quarteirão formado pelas ruas de São João
e de Mouzinho da Silveira está, por esse motivo, assente em
estacas de madeira...
(street part-of block) (Moreover, the block formed by the streets of São João and Mouzinho
da Silveira is, because of that, built on wooden stacks...)
mão part-of corpo As mãos são a parte do corpo mais atingida (29,7%).
(hand part-of body) (The hands are the most affected part of the body (29.7%).)
pessoa member-of comissão A comissão é constituída por pessoas que ficaram marcadas
pela presença de Dona Amélia: ...
(person member-of committee) (The committee consists of people who were marked by the presence
of Dona Amélia: ...)
lobo member-of alcateia Mech e os seus colegas constataram que alguns dos cheiros
contidos nas marcas de urina servem para os lobos de uma
alcateia saberem por onde andou o lobo que deixou as marcas
...
(wolf member-of pack) (Mech and his colleagues found that some of the smells of urine con-
tained in the marks are for a pack of wolves to know where the wolf
that left the marks has been...)
transporte purpose-of embarcação ... onde foi descoberto o resto do casco de uma em-
(transport purpose-of ship)
barcação presumivelmente utilizada no transporte
de peças de cerâmica ...
(... where the rest of the hull of a ship, allegedly used to transport
pieces of pottery, was discovered ...)
espectáculo purpose-of anfiteatro Sobre a hipótese da construção de stands de artesanato e de
um anfiteatro para espectáculos, a edilidade portuense
diz ainda não estar nada decidido.
(show purpose-of amphitheatre) (About the possibility of building crafts booths and an amphitheater
for performances, the Porto city council says that nothing is decided
yet.)
Table 4.10: Examples of sentences supporting extracted tb-triples.
the remaining third from Wiktionary.PT. Each judge had to classify each tb-triple
either as:
• Correct (2): there is at least one context where the tb-triple is valid;
• Wrong relation (1): the arguments of the tb-triple are intuitively related, but
their relation (predicate) should be another (e.g. to eat causation-of spoon,
instead of to eat purpose-of spoon);
• Wrong (0): the tb-triple is never valid.
The results of this evaluation are reported in tables 4.11 and 4.12. In the first
table, the results are presented according to relation, judge and individually by
resource. The second table presents the overall results per relation and the margin