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<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1> The category system</H1>
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<I>Last update: Sat Feb 25 22:35:53 2006</I><BR>
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<LI><A HREF="#toc1">Top-level units</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc2">Sentences and clauses</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc3">Questions and interrogatives</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc4">Relative clauses and pronouns</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc5">Verb phrases</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc6">Adjectival phrases</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc7">Nouns and noun phrases</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc8">Adverbs</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc9">Numerals</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc10">Structural words</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc11">Words of open classes</A>
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(c) Aarne Ranta (<A HREF="mailto:aarne@cs.chalmers.se">aarne@cs.chalmers.se</A>) 2002 under GNU GPL.
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Some categories are inherited from <A HREF="Common.html">Common</A>.
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abstract Cat = Common ** {
cat
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<H2>Top-level units</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Text.html">Text</A>: <CODE>Text</CODE>.
Constructed in <A HREF="Phrase.html">Phrase</A>: <CODE>Phr</CODE> and
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Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet"
Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling"
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<H2>Sentences and clauses</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Sentence.html">Sentence</A>, and also in
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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"
Imp ; -- imperative e.g. "look at this"
SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains"
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<H2>Questions and interrogatives</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Question.html">Question</A>.
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QCl ; -- question clause, with all tenses e.g. "why does she walk"
IP ; -- interrogative pronoun e.g. "who"
IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb e.g. "why"
IDet ; -- interrogative determiner e.g. "which"
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<H2>Relative clauses and pronouns</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Relative.html">Relative</A>.
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RCl ; -- relative clause, with all tenses e.g. "in which she lives"
RP ; -- relative pronoun e.g. "in which"
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<H2>Verb phrases</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Verb.html">Verb</A>.
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VP ; -- verb phrase e.g. "is very warm"
Comp ; -- complement of copula, such as AP e.g. "very warm"
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<H2>Adjectival phrases</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Adjective.html">Adjective</A>.
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AP ; -- adjectival phrase e.g. "very warm"
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<H2>Nouns and noun phrases</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Noun.html">Noun</A>.
Many atomic noun phrases e.g. <I>everybody</I>
are constructed in <A HREF="Structural.html">Structural</A>.
The determiner structure is
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Predet (QuantSg | QuantPl Num) Ord
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as defined in <A HREF="Noun.html">Noun</A>.
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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. "all the seven"
Predet; -- predeterminer (prefixed Quant) e.g. "all"
QuantSg;-- quantifier ('nucleus' of sing. Det) e.g. "every"
QuantPl;-- quantifier ('nucleus' of plur. Det) e.g. "many"
Quant ; -- quantifier with both sg and pl e.g. "this/these"
Num ; -- cardinal number (used with QuantPl) e.g. "seven"
Ord ; -- ordinal number (used in Det) e.g. "seventh"
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<H2>Adverbs</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Adverb.html">Adverb</A>.
Many adverbs are constructed in <A HREF="Structural.html">Structural</A>.
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Adv ; -- verb-phrase-modifying adverb, e.g. "in the house"
AdV ; -- adverb directly attached to verb e.g. "always"
AdA ; -- adjective-modifying adverb, e.g. "very"
AdN ; -- numeral-modifying adverb, e.g. "more than"
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<H2>Numerals</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Numeral.html">Numeral</A>.
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Numeral;-- cardinal or ordinal, e.g. "five/fifth"
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<H2>Structural words</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Structural.html">Structural</A>.
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Conj ; -- conjunction, e.g. "and"
DConj ; -- distributed conj. e.g. "both - and"
PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conj. e.g. "therefore"
CAdv ; -- comparative adverb e.g. "more"
Subj ; -- subjunction, e.g. "if"
Prep ; -- preposition, or just case e.g. "in"
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<H2>Words of open classes</H2>
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These are constructed in <A HREF="Lexicon.html">Lexicon</A> and in additional lexicon modules.
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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. "ask"
VA ; -- adjective-complement verb e.g. "look"
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"
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