Annotation guidelines
shared task on automatic identification of verbal MWEs - edition 1.0 (2017)
Other verbal MWEs (OTH)
This category is meant to contain VMWEs which do not fit to the preceding categories, that is, whose lexicalized components do not include a single head verb and at least one of its arguments. VMWEs in this category fail the structural test 6 [HEAD]. They include:
- coordinations of verbs
- leben und leben lassen live and let live
- to drink and drive
- coser y cantarto_sew and to_singeasy as pie, a piece of cake
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pluć i łapać spit and catch to be lazy, to do nothing useful
coś kogoś ani ziębi, ani grzeje something neither cools nor warms someonesomeone is indifferent to something
badż tak dobry i zrób cośbe so good and do somenthingbe so good as to do something - pintar e bordar paint and knit to abuse
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a tunat și i-a adunatit.has thundered and CL.ACC-it.has gatheredbirds of a feather flock together
seamănă, dar nu răsaresow.3SG (homonym of resemble), but not sprout.3SGnot to resemble - živi in pusti živeti live and let live
- compound verbs, resulting usually from conversion of nominal compounds:
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to voice act
to pretty-print
to short-circuit
to tumble dry - court-circuiter to short-circuit
- n.a. there are no cases of compound hyphenated verbs in RO
- n.a. there are no cases of compound hyphenated verbs in SL
No specific tests apply to this category. In other words an expression should be annotated as OTH if:
- it is of one of the syntactic/functional types of verbal multiword expression
- it is a VMWE, i.e. it fulfills one of the 5 generic tests for VMWE identification
- it cannot be classified into any universal (LVC, ID), quasi-universal (IReflV, VPC) or language-specific category