[Corpora-List] About Part of Speech in English and Chinese

[Xing Fukun]

Hello HUEI-CHI,
    Thanks for your attention to my question. I have some different analyses of the 3 sentences.
I think:    
(1)一件 价格 昂贵 的 礼品 
In this sentence 价格 is a noun, because 价格  has only one PoS in the dictionary. And the relation between 价格 and 昂贵 is subject-predicate.
(2)一件 加工 精细 的 礼品 
In this sentence 加工 is a verb, because 加工  has only one PoS of verb in the dictionary. And the relation between 加工 and 精细 is predicate-complement as you have analyzed.
(3)一件 包装 精美 的 礼品 
In this sentence the PoS of 包装 is vague, because 包装 has 2 PoS, noun and verb,  in the dictionary. And no matter what PoS of 包装 is, the sentence can be successfully parsed and understood. If 包装 is a noun, the relation between 包装 and 精美 is subject-predicate. If 包装 is a verb, the relation between 包装 and 精美 is predicate-complement. And even more, the Chinese native speakers don't care about the PoS and syntactic relations between 包装  and 精美, which do nothing to the correct understanding of the sentence.
Best regards,
Fukun  
  




Xing Fukun
2009-11-08



发件人： LIN HUEI-CHI
发送时间： 2009-11-08 05:23:12
收件人： Corpora at uib.no; Max Silberztein; Xing Fukun
抄送： 宋柔
主题： Re: About Part of Speech in English and Chinese

Hello Fukun,
 
一件 价格 昂贵 的 礼品
一件 加工 精细 的 礼品 
一件 包装 精美 的 礼品
 
 
I think: 
 
1) 价格, 加工 and 包装, these three words are verbs;
2) 昂贵, 精细 and 精细, they are adjectives used as verbs’ complements. 
In these three NP, the 得 is omitted. So, 价格, 加工 and 包装 should be verbs rather then nouns. 
 
What you think? 
 
Sincerely,
 
Huei-Chi LIN


--- En date de : Mer 4.11.09, Xing Fukun <xingfukun001 at gmail.com> a écrit :


De: Xing Fukun <xingfukun001 at gmail.com>
Objet: Re: About Part of Speech in English and Chinese
à: "LIN HUEI-CHI" <lin_huei_chi at yahoo.fr>, "Corpora at uib.no" <Corpora at uib.no>, "Max Silberztein" <max.silberztein at gmail.com>
Cc: "宋柔" <songrou at blcu.edu.cn>
Date: Mercredi 4 Novembre 2009, 2h26


Hi Huei-Chi,
    I agree that "自然" in this sentence can be tagged as noun or proper noun. Whether the ambiguity can be resolved depended on the rule. If you have a rule to tag it as a noun or proper noun in such contexts the ambiguity will be solved consistently and it doesn't affect the analysis of the phrase structure. It is not the same in the following phrase.

>2) The sentence 一件 包装 精美 的 礼品 is a NP whose structure is [[一M 件Q [包装 V [精美A 的 DE 礼品N]]]] NP. So, the word 包装 should be tagged as verb.
How do you parse the following 2 phrases and what is the relation between "价格" and “昂贵”，“加工”and“精细”.
一件 价格 昂贵 的 礼品
一件 加工 精细 的 礼品

BTW, my analysis of the structure of 一件 包装 精美 的 礼品 is :
[一件M [[[包装N V 精美A] 的DE] 礼品N]]NP

Best
Fukun




Xing Fukun
2009-11-04



发件人： LIN HUEI-CHI
发送时间： 2009-11-04 08:39:31
收件人： Corpora at uib.no
抄送： xingfukun001 at gmail.com; Max Silberztein
主题： About Part of Speech in English and Chinese

Hello, 
 
I suggest two response for your questions: 
1) Some ambiguities still cannot be solved. For example, the sentence 他教自然 can be tagged by two ways: 
● 他P 教V 自然 N 
● 他 P教 V 自然 NPR 
The word 自然 can be a noun and a proper noun. 
 
2) The sentence 一件 包装 精美 的 礼品 is a NP whose structure is [[一M 件Q [包装 V [精美A 的 DE 礼品N]]]] NP. So, the word 包装 should be tagged as verb. 
 
Huei-Chi LIN 
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