Compositional Semantics - Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots - page 123

7.2.3 H EAR MODE DERIVATION OF The little girl ate an apple.

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the little girl ate an apple

lexical lookup

verb: . noun: n_1 adj: little

cat: adn

noun: girl verb: eat

cat: n' a' v
sem: past
arg:

noun: n_2 noun: apple

sem: def cat: sn sem: indef sg cat: sn cat: v' decl

fnc:
mdr:

sem: psv sem: count

fnc:

fnc:
mdr:

sem: count
fnc:

sem:

mdd: arg:

prn: prn: prn: prn: prn: prn: prn:

syntactic−semantic parsing

noun: n_1 adj: little

cat: adn

sem: def

1 fnc:

mdr:

sem: psv

mdd:
prn:

prn: 7

noun: n_1 adj: little

cat: adn

noun: girl

sem: def cat: sg

2 fnc: sem: psv sem: count

fnc: mdr: little mdd: n_1

prn: 7 prn: 7 prn:

noun: girl adj: little

cat: adn

verb: eat
cat: n' a' v
sem: past
arg:
prn:

sem:def sg

3 fnc: sem: psv

mdr: little mdd: girl

prn: 7 prn: 7

noun: girl adj: little

cat: adn

verb: eat noun: n_2

sem:def sg cat: a' v sem: indef sg

4 fnc: eat sem: psv sem: past fnc:

mdr:
prn:

mdr: little mdd: girl arg: girl

prn: 7

prn: 7 prn: 7

noun: girl adj: little

cat: adn

verb: eat noun: n_2 noun: apple

sem:def sg cat: v cat: snp cat: sn

sem: sg 5 fnc: eat sem: psv sem: past sem: indef sg

fnc: eat

mdr: little mdd: girl arg: girl n_2 fnc:

prn: prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7

ver b: .
cat: v' decl
sem:
arg:
prn:

noun: girl adj: little

cat: adn

verb: eat noun: apple

sem:def sg cat: v cat: snp

6 fnc: eat sem: psv sem: past sem: indef sg

mdr: little mdd: girl arg: girl apple fnc: eat

prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7

resulting content

noun: girl adj: little

cat: adn

verb: eat noun: apple

sem:def sg cat: decl cat: snp

sem: indef sg fnc: eat sem: psv

mdd: girl

sem: past

mdr: little arg: girl apple fnc: eat

prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7 prn: 7

This derivation illustrates the preverbal derivation of the little girl and the
postverbal derivation of an apple . The lexical proplets are defined in NLC'06,