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--1 Cat: the Category System
-- The category system is central to the library in the sense
-- that the other modules ($Adjective$, $Adverb$, $Noun$, $Verb$ etc)
-- communicate through it. This means that a e.g. a function using
-- $NP$s in $Verb$ need not know how $NP$s are constructed in $Noun$:
-- it is enough that both $Verb$ and $Noun$ use the same type $NP$,
-- which is given here in $Cat$.
--
-- Some categories are inherited from [``Common`` Common.html].
-- The reason they are defined there is that they have the same
-- implementation in all languages in the resource (typically,
-- just a string). These categories are
-- $AdA, AdN, AdV, Adv, Ant, CAdv, IAdv, PConj, Phr$,
-- $Pol, SC, Tense, Text, Utt, Voc$.
--
-- Moreover, the list categories $ListAdv, ListAP, ListNP, ListS$
-- are defined on $Conjunction$ and only used locally there.
abstract Cat = Common ** {
cat
--2 Sentences and clauses
-- Constructed in [Sentence Sentence.html], and also in
-- [Idiom Idiom.html].
S ; -- declarative sentence e.g. "she lived here"
QS ; -- question e.g. "where did she live"
RS ; -- relative e.g. "in which she lived"
Cl ; -- declarative clause, with all tenses e.g. "she looks at this"
Slash ; -- clause missing NP (S/NP in GPSG) e.g. "she looks at"
SlashS ;-- sentence missing NP e.g. "she has looked at"
Imp ; -- imperative e.g. "look at this"
--2 Questions and interrogatives
-- Constructed in [Question Question.html].
QCl ; -- question clause, with all tenses e.g. "why does she walk"
IP ; -- interrogative pronoun e.g. "who"
IComp ; -- interrogative complement of copula e.g. "where"
IDet ; -- interrogative determiner e.g. "which"
--2 Relative clauses and pronouns
-- Constructed in [Relative Relative.html].
RCl ; -- relative clause, with all tenses e.g. "in which she lives"
RP ; -- relative pronoun e.g. "in which"
--2 Verb phrases
-- Constructed in [Verb Verb.html].
VP ; -- verb phrase e.g. "is very warm"
Comp ; -- complement of copula, such as AP e.g. "very warm"
--2 Adjectival phrases
-- Constructed in [Adjective Adjective.html].
AP ; -- adjectival phrase e.g. "very warm"
--2 Nouns and noun phrases
-- Constructed in [Noun Noun.html].
-- Many atomic noun phrases e.g. "everybody"
-- are constructed in [Structural Structural.html].
-- The determiner structure is
-- ``` Predet (QuantSg | QuantPl Num) Ord
-- as defined in [Noun Noun.html].
CN ; -- common noun (without determiner) e.g. "red house"
NP ; -- noun phrase (subject or object) e.g. "the red house"
Pron ; -- personal pronoun e.g. "she"
Det ; -- determiner phrase e.g. "those seven"
Predet ; -- predeterminer (prefixed Quant) e.g. "all"
Quant ; -- quantifier ('nucleus' of Det) e.g. "this/these"
Num ; -- cardinal number (used with QuantPl) e.g. "seven"
Ord ; -- ordinal number (used in Det) e.g. "seventh"
--2 Numerals
-- Constructed in [Numeral Numeral.html].
Numeral ; -- cardinal or ordinal in words e.g. "five/fifth"
Digits ; -- cardinal or ordinal in digits e.g. "1,000/1,000th"
--2 Structural words
-- Constructed in [Structural Structural.html].
Conj ; -- conjunction e.g. "and"
DConj ; -- distributed conjunction e.g. "both - and"
Subj ; -- subjunction e.g. "if"
Prep ; -- preposition, or just case e.g. "in"
--2 Words of open classes
-- These are constructed in [Lexicon Lexicon.html] and in
-- additional lexicon modules.
V ; -- one-place verb e.g. "sleep"
V2 ; -- two-place verb e.g. "love"
V3 ; -- three-place verb e.g. "show"
VV ; -- verb-phrase-complement verb e.g. "want"
VS ; -- sentence-complement verb e.g. "claim"
VQ ; -- question-complement verb e.g. "wonder"
VA ; -- adjective-complement verb e.g. "look"
V2V ; -- verb with NP and V complement e.g. "cause"
V2S ; -- verb with NP and S complement e.g. "tell"
V2Q ; -- verb with NP and Q complement e.g. "ask"
V2A ; -- verb with NP and AP complement e.g. "paint"
A ; -- one-place adjective e.g. "warm"
A2 ; -- two-place adjective e.g. "divisible"
N ; -- common noun e.g. "house"
N2 ; -- relational noun e.g. "son"
N3 ; -- three-place relational noun e.g. "connection"
PN ; -- proper name e.g. "Paris"
-- DEPRECATED: QuantSg, QuantPl
--- QuantSg ;-- quantifier ('nucleus' of sing. Det) e.g. "every"
--- QuantPl ;-- quantifier ('nucleus' of plur. Det) e.g. "many"
}