Errors in English MOR nouns and verbs

Florencia Alam florenciaalam at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 10:36:04 UTC 2021


Thanks! It works!

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 16:44, Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Florencia,
>    Thanks for noticing this.  Seems like you may be using a slightly older
> version of MOR.  However, even the current one has most of these problems.
> I fixed them by adding these prepost rules:
>
> # noun to verb, after contracted modal "gonna play"
> part|*~inf|to n|*^v|* => part|*~inf|to v|*
>
> # noun to verb, after go "let's go play"
> v|go n|*^v|* => v|go v|*
>
> # noun to verb, "want to play"
> v|want* inf|to^prep|to n|*^v|* => v|want* inf|to v|*
>
> Hopefully, these don’t break something else.  That is always a danger with
> rule systems.
>
> — Brian
>
> > On Dec 6, 2021, at 1:25 PM, floren... at gmail.com <florenciaalam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone, I am running MOR on an English corpus and most of the verbs
> that come after gonna,  wanna, want to, and  going to, are coded as nouns
> not as verbs:
> >
> > *MOT: we're gonna ride in the stroller .
> > %mor: pro:sub|we~aux|be&PRES part|go&PRESP~prep|to n|ride prep|in
> >       det:art|the n|stroll&dv-AGT .
> > *MOT: are you gonna play ?
> > %mor: cop|be&PRES pro:per|you part|go&PRESP~prep|to n|play ?
> > *MOT: we can go play outside
> > %mor: pro:sub|we mod|can v|go n|play adv|outside
> > *MOT: let's go dance
> > %mor: v|let~pro:obj|us v|go n|dance
> > *MOT: well she wants to play
> > %mor: co|well pro:sub|she v|want-3S prep|to n|play
> > *MOT: you <wanna> [: want to] act like you <ain't> [: are not] given it
> up
> > %mor: pro:per|you v|want prep|to n|act prep|like pro:per|you aux|be&PRES
> >       neg|not part|give&PASTP pro:per|it adv|up
> > *MOT: oh my god you want to talk so bad
> > %mor: co|oh det:poss|my co|god pro:per|you v|want prep|to n|talk adv|so
> >       adj|bad
> >
> > Is there a way I can fix this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Florencia
> >
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