Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
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4PROBLEMATICCASES ifitisgradable|thatis,ifitcanbeprecededbyadegreeadverblikevery,orifitallows<strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mation<strong>of</strong>acomparative. 16<br />
if<strong>the</strong>reisacorrespondingun-<strong>for</strong>mwith<strong>the</strong>oppositemeaning. EXAMPLE: Hewasmoresurprised/JJthanshewas. Hewasverysurprised/JJ.<br />
Besuretocheckwhe<strong>the</strong>r<strong>the</strong>reisacorrespondingverbbeginningwithun-.If<strong>the</strong>reis,youcannot EXAMPLE: anunhurried/JJmeeting ahurried/JJmeeting;<br />
relyonthistesttodeterminewhe<strong>the</strong>r<strong>the</strong>wordinquestionisanadjectiveoraparticiple,andyou willhavetouse<strong>the</strong>o<strong>the</strong>rtests. EXAMPLE: Yourshoelacehasbeenuntied/JJeversincewestarted.<br />
beei<strong>the</strong>raJJoraVBN,dependingonitscontext. Whenapplying<strong>the</strong>un-test,besuretotake<strong>the</strong>entirecontextintoaccount.Forinstance,armedcan Iknow|itgotuntied/VBNbyaccident.<br />
EXAMPLE: (cf.*Unarmedwithonlyaknife,:::) (cf.Weneedanunarmedguard.) Armed/VBNwithonlyaknife,::: Weneedanarmed/JJguard.<br />
seemorsound. if<strong>the</strong>wordoccursinconstructionwithbe,andbecouldbereplacedbybecome,feel,look,remain, EXAMPLES:Hebecameinterested/JJ.<br />
Hesoundedsurprised/JJ. Heremainedsurprised/JJ. Heseemedsurprised/JJ. Helookedsurprised/JJ. Hefeltinterested/JJ.<br />
taggedasaparticiple(VBN)ra<strong>the</strong>rthanasanadjective(JJ). However,if<strong>the</strong>complement<strong>of</strong>any<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>verbslistedaboveismodiedbyaby-phrase,itshouldbe<br />
if<strong>the</strong>wordoccursinconstructionwithkeep. EXAMPLE: Heremainsguided/VBNby<strong>the</strong>seprinciples.<br />
ifitreferstoa(resultant)statera<strong>the</strong>rthantoa(specic)event. EXAMPLES:Theyshouldbekeptwellwatered/JJ.<br />
EXAMPLES:At<strong>the</strong>time,Iwasmarried/JJ. amistaken/JJdecision<br />
Iwasmistaken/JJ(=wrong)<strong>the</strong>o<strong>the</strong>rday.
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