Hindi PropBank Annotation Guidelines December ... - Verbs Index

Numbered Arguments
Description
1. Arg0 Prototypical agent, actor, experiencer
2. Arg0_GOL The doer of an action which is also the recipient or
beneficiary of the caused action (used in causative
constructions and dative experiencer subjects of
mental state predicates)
3. Arg0_MNS The doer of an action (a) which is caused by a
causer to perform the action, (b) it is not the obvious
recipient or beneficiary of the action and (c) the
action is performed on an Arg1 argument (only used
in causative constructions)
4. ArgA The only causer present in a causative construction,
or the most external causer in case of multiple
causers
5. ArgA_MNS Intermediate Causer
6. Arg1 Prototypical patient, theme
7. Arg2 Beneficiary, receiver
8. Arg2_GOL Goal, destination
9. Arg2_SOU Source
10. Arg2_ATTR Attribute
11. Arg2_LOC Location
12. Arg3 Instrument
Below we provide descriptions for each of the numbered argument labels. But before
we look at these labels individually, a general observation about these labels should be
noted. The argument labels for the core arguments are not repeated within the same
sentence in PropBank. This observation represents the fact that each possible core
argument manifests itself only once in a sentence, i.e. multiple arguments cannot be
treated as the same core argument for the same verb in the same sentence. However,
the label ArgA_MNS and Arg3 are exceptions to this rule. The label ArgA_MNS, despite
being considered as a numbered argument label, can be used to label more than one
argument within the same sentence, i.e. it is used to annotate intermediate causers in
the sentence of which there may be more than one. Similarly the label Arg3 can be
used repeatedly since multiple instruments are possible within the same sentence. See
sections 3.5 and 3.12 for examples. Let us now look at each of these numbered
argument labels in detail.
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