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--!
--2 Rules
--
-- This set of rules is minimal, in the sense of defining the simplest combinations
-- of categories and not having redundant rules.
-- When the resource grammar is used as a library, it will often be useful to
-- access it through an intermediate library that defines more rules as
-- 'macros' for combinations of the ones below.
abstract Shallow = {
--1 Abstract Syntax Categories for Multilingual Resource Grammar
--
-- Aarne Ranta 2002 -- 2004
--
-- Although concrete syntax differs a lot between different languages,
-- many structures can be treated as common, on the level
-- of abstraction that GF provides.
-- What we will present in the following is a linguistically oriented abstract
-- syntax that has been successfully defined for the following languages:
--
--* $Eng$lish
--* $Fin$nish
--* $Fre$nch
--* $Ger$man
--* $Ita$lian
--* $Rus$sian
--* $Swe$dish
--
-- The three-letter prefixes are used in file names all over the resource
-- grammar library; we refer to them commonly as $X$ below.
--!
-- The grammar has been applied to define language
-- fragments on technical or near-to-technical domains: database queries,
-- video recorder dialogue systems, software specifications, and a
-- health-related phrase book. Each new application helped to identify some
-- missing structures in the resource and suggested some additions, but the
-- number of required additions was usually small.
--
-- To use the resource in applications, you need the following
-- $cat$ and $fun$ rules in $oper$ form, completed by taking the
-- $lincat$ and $lin$ judgements of a particular language. This is done
-- by using, instead of this module, the $reuse$ module which has the name
-- $ResourceX$. It is located in the subdirectory
-- $lib/resource/lang$ where $lang$ is the full name of the language.
--!
--2 Categories
--
-- The categories of this resource grammar are mostly 'standard' categories
-- of linguistics. Their is no claim that they correspond to semantic categories
-- definable in type theory: to define such correspondences is the business
-- of applications grammars. In general, the correspondence between linguistic
-- and semantic categories is many-to-many.
--
-- Categories that may look special are $A2$, $N2$, and $V2$. They are all
-- instances of endowing another category with a complement, which can be either
-- a direct object (whose case may vary) or a prepositional phrase. Prepositional
-- phrases that are not complements belong to the category
-- $Adv$ of adverbs.
--
-- In each group below, some categories are *lexical* in the sense of only
-- containing atomic elements. These elements are not necessarily expressed by
-- one word in all languages; the essential thing is that they have no
-- constituents. Thus they have no productions in this part of the
-- resource grammar. The $ParadigmsX$ grammars provide ways of defining
-- lexical elements.
--
-- Lexical categories are listed before other categories
-- in each group and divided by an empty line.
--!
--3 Nouns and noun phrases
--
cat
N ; -- simple common noun, e.g. "car"
CN ; -- common noun phrase, e.g. "red car", "car that John owns"
N2 ; -- function word, e.g. "mother (of)"
N3 ; -- two-place function, e.g. "flight (from) (to)"
PN ; -- proper name, e.g. "John", "New York"
NP ; -- noun phrase, e.g. "John", "all cars", "you"
Det ; -- determiner, e.g. "every", "all"
Num ; -- numeral, e.g. "three", "879"
--!
--3 Adjectives and adjectival phrases
--
A ; -- one-place adjective, e.g. "even"
A2 ; -- two-place adjective, e.g. "divisible (by)"
ADeg ; -- degree adjective, e.g. "big/bigger/biggest"
AP ; -- adjective phrase, e.g. "divisible by two", "bigger than John"
-- The difference between $A$ and $ADeg$ is that the former has no
-- comparison forms.
--!
--3 Verbs and verb phrases
--
V ; -- one-place verb, e.g. "walk"
V2 ; -- two-place verb, e.g. "love", "wait (for)", "switch on"
V3 ; -- three-place verb, e.g. "give", "prefer (stg) (to stg)"
VS ; -- sentence-compl. verb, e.g. "say", "prove"
VV ; -- verb-compl. verb, e.g. "can", "want"
VP ; -- verb phrase, e.g. "switch the light on"
VPI ; -- infinitive verb phrase e.g. "switch the light on", "not have run"
--!
--3 Adverbs and prepositions/cases
--
Adv ; -- sentence adverb e.g. "now", "in the house"
AdV ; -- verb adverb e.g. "always"
AdA ; -- ad-adjective e.g. "very"
AdC ; -- conjoining adverb e.g. "therefore", "otherwise"
PP ; -- prepositional phrase e.g. "in London"
Prep ; -- pre/postposition, case e.g. "after", Adessive
--!
--3 Sentences and relative clauses
--
-- This group has no lexical categories.
S ; -- sentence (fixed tense) e.g. "John walks", "John walked"
Cl ; -- clause (variable tense) e.g. "John walks"/"John walked"
Slash ; -- sentence without NP, e.g. "John waits for (...)"
RP ; -- relative pronoun, e.g. "which", "the mother of whom"
RCl ; -- relative clause, e.g. "who walks", "that I wait for"
--!
--3 Questions and imperatives
--
-- This group has no lexical categories.
IP ; -- interrogative pronoun, e.g. "who", "whose mother", "which yellow car"
IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb., e.g. "when", "why"
QCl ; -- question, e.g. "who walks"
Imp ; -- imperative, e.g. "walk!"
--!
--3 Coordination and subordination
--
Conj ; -- conjunction, e.g. "and"
ConjD ; -- distributed conj. e.g. "both - and"
Subj ; -- subjunction, e.g. "if", "when"
ListS ; -- list of sentences
ListAP ; -- list of adjectival phrases
ListNP ; -- list of noun phrases
--!
--3 Complete utterances
--
-- This group has no lexical categories.
Phr ; -- full phrase, e.g. "John walks.","Who walks?", "Wait for me!"
Text ; -- sequence of phrases e.g. "One is odd. Therefore, two is even."
---- next
V2A ; -- paint the house red
V2V ; -- promise John to come / ask John to come
V2S ; -- tell John that it is raining
VQ ; -- ask who comes
V2Q ; -- ask John who comes
VA ; -- look yellow
V0 ; -- (it) rains
AS ; -- (it is) important that he comes
A2S ; -- (it is) important for me that he comes
AV ; -- difficult to play
A2V ; -- difficult for him to play
-- NB: it is difficult to play the sonata
-- vs. it (the sonata) is difficult to play
--- also: John is easy (for you) to please vs. John is eager to please
QS ; -- question with fixed tense and polarity
RS ; -- relative clause with fixed tense and polarity
TP ; -- tense x polarity selector
Tense ; -- (abstract) tense
Ant ; -- (abstract) anteriority
--!
--3 Nouns and noun phrases
--
fun
UseN : N -> CN ; -- "car"
UsePN : PN -> NP ; -- "John"
---- SymbPN : String -> PN ; -- "x"
---- SymbCN : CN -> String -> CN ; -- "number x"
---- IntCN : CN -> Int -> CN ; -- "number 53"
IndefOneNP : CN -> NP ; -- "a car", "cars"
IndefNumNP : Num -> CN -> NP ; -- "houses", "86 houses"
DefOneNP : CN -> NP ; -- "the car"
DefNumNP : Num -> CN -> NP ; -- "the cars", "the 86 cars"
DetNP : Det -> CN -> NP ; -- "every car"
MassNP : CN -> NP ; -- "wine"
AppN2 : N2 -> NP -> CN ; -- "successor of zero"
AppN3 : N3 -> NP -> N2 ; -- "flight from Paris"
UseN2 : N2 -> CN ; -- "successor"
ModAP : AP -> CN -> CN ; -- "red car"
CNthatS : CN -> S -> CN ; -- "idea that the Earth is flat"
ModGenOne : NP -> CN -> NP ; -- "John's car"
ModGenNum : Num -> NP -> CN -> NP ; -- "John's cars", "John's 86 cars"
---- UseInt : Int -> Num ; -- "32" --- assumes i > 1
NoNum : Num ; -- no numeral modifier
--!
--3 Adjectives and adjectival phrases
--
UseA : A -> AP ; -- "red"
ComplA2 : A2 -> NP -> AP ; -- "divisible by two"
PositADeg : ADeg -> AP ; -- "old"
ComparADeg : ADeg -> NP -> AP ; -- "older than John"
SuperlNP : ADeg -> CN -> NP ; -- "the oldest man"
--!
--3 Verbs and verb phrases
--
-- The principal way of forming sentences ($S$) is by combining a noun phrase
-- with a verb phrase (the $PredVP$ rule below). In addition to this, verb
-- phrases have uses in relative clauses and questions. Verb phrases already
-- have (or have not) a negation, but they are formed from verbal groups
-- ($VG$), which have both positive and negative forms.
PredV : NP -> V -> Cl ; -- "John walks"
PredPassV : NP -> V -> Cl ; -- "John is seen"
PredV2 : NP -> V2 -> NP -> Cl ; -- "John sees Mary"
PredReflV2 : NP -> V2 -> Cl ; -- "John loves himself"
PredVS : NP -> VS -> S -> Cl ; -- "John says that Mary runs"
PredVV : NP -> VV -> VPI -> Cl ; -- "John must walk"
PredVQ : NP -> VQ -> QS -> Cl ; -- "John asks who will come"
PredVA : NP -> VA -> AP -> Cl ; -- "John looks ill"
PredV2A : NP -> V2A -> NP ->AP ->Cl ; -- "John paints the house red"
PredSubjV2V : NP -> V2V -> NP ->VPI ->Cl ; -- "John promises Mary to leave"
PredAP : NP -> AP -> Cl ; -- "John is old"
PredSuperl : NP -> ADeg -> Cl ; -- "John is the oldest"
PredCN : NP -> CN -> Cl ; -- "John is a man"
PredNP : NP -> NP -> Cl ; -- "John is Bill"
PredPP : NP -> PP -> Cl ; -- "John is in France"
PredAV : NP -> AV ->VPI ->Cl ; -- "John is eager to leave"
PredObjA2V : NP -> A2V -> NP ->VPI ->Cl ; -- "John is easy for us to convince"
PredObjV2V : NP -> V2V -> NP -> VPI -> Cl ; -- "John asks me to come"
PredV2S : NP -> V2S -> NP -> S -> Cl ; -- "John told me that it is good"
PredV2Q : NP -> V2Q -> NP -> QS -> Cl ; -- "John asked me if it is good"
PredAS : AS -> S -> Cl ; -- "it is good that he comes"
PredV0 : V0 -> Cl ; -- "it is raining"
-- Partial saturation.
UseV2 : V2 -> V ; -- "loves"
ComplV3 : V3 -> NP -> V2 ; -- "prefers wine (to beer)"
ComplA2S : A2S -> NP -> AS ; -- "good for John"
TransVV2 : VV -> V2 -> V2 ; -- (which song do you) want to play
UseV2V : V2V -> VV ;
UseV2S : V2S -> VS ;
UseV2Q : V2Q -> VQ ;
UseA2S : A2S -> AS ;
UseA2V : A2V -> AV ;
-- Formation of infinitival phrases.
--- PosVP, NegVP : Ant -> VP -> VPI ;
ProgVG : VP -> VP ; -- he is eating
AdjPart : V -> A ; -- forgotten
UseCl : TP -> Cl -> S ;
UseRCl : TP -> RCl -> RS ;
UseQCl : TP -> QCl -> QS ;
PosTP : Tense -> Ant -> TP ;
NegTP : Tense -> Ant -> TP ;
TPresent : Tense ;
TPast : Tense ;
TFuture : Tense ;
TConditional : Tense ;
ASimul : Ant ;
AAnter : Ant ;
--!
--3 Adverbs
--
-- Here is how complex adverbs can be formed and used.
AdjAdv : AP -> Adv ; -- "freely", "more consciously than you"
AdvPP : PP -> Adv ; -- "in London", "after the war"
PrepNP : Prep -> NP -> PP ; -- "in London", "after the war"
AdvVP : VP -> AdV -> VP ; -- "always walks", "walks in the park"
AdvCN : CN -> PP -> CN ; -- "house in London"
AdvAP : AdA -> AP -> AP ; -- "very good"
--!
--3 Sentences and relative clauses
--
SlashV2 : NP -> V2 -> Slash ; -- "John doesn't love"
IdRP : RP ; -- "which"
FunRP : N2 -> RP -> RP ; -- "the successor of which"
RelVP : RP -> VP -> RCl ; -- "who walks", "who doesn't walk"
RelSlash : RP -> Slash -> RCl ; -- "that I wait for"/"for which I wait"
ModRS : CN -> RS -> CN ; -- "man who walks"
RelCl : Cl -> RCl ; -- "such that it is even"
--!
--3 Questions and imperatives
--
WhoOne, WhoMany : IP ; -- "who (is)", "who (are)"
WhatOne, WhatMany : IP ; -- "what (is)", "what (are)"
FunIP : N2 -> IP -> IP ; -- "the mother of whom"
NounIPOne, NounIPMany : CN -> IP ; -- "which car", "which cars"
QuestVP : NP -> VP -> QCl ; -- "does John walk"; "doesn't John walk"
IntVP : IP -> VP -> QCl ; -- "who walks"
IntSlash : IP -> Slash -> QCl ; -- "whom does John see"
QuestAdv : IAdv -> NP -> VP -> QCl ; -- "why do you walk"
PosImperVP, NegImperVP : VP -> Imp ; -- "(don't) be a man"
----rename these ??
IndicPhrase : S -> Phr ; -- "I walk."
QuestPhrase : QS -> Phr ; -- "Do I walk?"
ImperOne, ImperMany : Imp -> Phr ; -- "Be a man!", "Be men!"
AdvCl : Cl -> Adv -> Cl ; -- "Therefore, 2 is prime."
AdvPhr : AdC -> S -> Phr ; -- "Therefore, 2 is prime."
--!
--3 Coordination
--
-- We consider "n"-ary coordination, with "n" > 1. To this end, we have introduced
-- a *list category* $ListX$ for each category $X$ whose expressions we want to
-- conjoin. Each list category has two constructors, the base case being $TwoX$.
-- We have not defined coordination of all possible categories here,
-- since it can be tricky in many languages. For instance, $VP$ coordination
-- is linguistically problematic in German because $VP$ is a discontinuous
-- category.
ConjS : Conj -> ListS -> S ; -- "John walks and Mary runs"
ConjAP : Conj -> ListAP -> AP ; -- "even and prime"
ConjNP : Conj -> ListNP -> NP ; -- "John or Mary"
ConjDS : ConjD -> ListS -> S ; -- "either John walks or Mary runs"
ConjDAP : ConjD -> ListAP -> AP ; -- "both even and prime"
ConjDNP : ConjD -> ListNP -> NP ; -- "either John or Mary"
TwoS : S -> S -> ListS ;
ConsS : ListS -> S -> ListS ;
TwoAP : AP -> AP -> ListAP ;
ConsAP : ListAP -> AP -> ListAP ;
TwoNP : NP -> NP -> ListNP ;
ConsNP : ListNP -> NP -> ListNP ;
--!
--3 Subordination
--
-- Subjunctions are different from conjunctions, but form
-- a uniform category among themselves.
SubjS : Subj -> S -> S -> S ; -- "if 2 is odd, 3 is even"
SubjImper : Subj -> S -> Imp -> Imp ; -- "if it is hot, use a glove!"
SubjQS : Subj -> S -> QS -> QS ; -- "if you are new, who are you?"
SubjVP : VP -> Subj -> S -> VP ; -- "(a man who) sings when he runs"
--!
--2 One-word utterances
--
-- These are, more generally, *one-phrase utterances*. The list below
-- is very incomplete.
PhrNP : NP -> Phr ; -- "Some man.", "John."
PhrOneCN, PhrManyCN : CN -> Phr ; -- "A car.", "Cars."
PhrIP : IAdv -> Phr ; -- "Who?"
PhrIAdv : IAdv -> Phr ; -- "Why?"
--!
--2 Text formation
--
-- A text is a sequence of phrases. It is defined like a non-empty list.
OnePhr : Phr -> Text ;
ConsPhr : Phr -> Text -> Text ;
--2 Special constructs.
--
-- These constructs tend to have language-specific syntactic realizations.
OneVP : VP -> Cl ; -- "one walks"
ExistCN : CN -> Cl ; -- "there is a bar"
ExistNumCN : Num -> CN -> Cl ; -- "there are (86) bars"
ExistQCl : CN -> QCl ; -- "is there a bar",
ExistNumQCl : Num -> CN -> QCl ; -- "are there (86) bars"
} ;