Annotation guidelines
corpora annotated for multiword expressions

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Hindi-specific decision tree

For Hindi, LVCs can be formed by a verb and a noun, or by a verb and an adjective which is morphologically identical to an eventive noun. This implies a modified version of the annotation decision tree.

Steps 1-4 are still valid in Hindi. But Step 3 should be realized with the decision tree below instead of the generic decision tree.

• Apply test S.1 - [1HEAD: Unique verb as functional syntactic head of the whole?]
• Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VID
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Apply test S.2 - [1DEP: Verb v has exactly one lexicalized dependent d?]
• Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VID
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Apply test S.3 - [LEX-SUBJ: Lexicalized subject?]
• Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VID
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Apply test S.4 - [CATEG: What is the morphosyntactic category of d?]
• Reflexive clitic ⇒ Apply IRV-specific tests ⇒ IRV tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category IRV
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Particle ⇒ Apply VPC-specific tests ⇒ VPC tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VPC.full or VPC.semi
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Verb with no lexicalized dependent ⇒ Apply MVC-specific tests ⇒ MVC tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category MVC
• Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category ID
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Extended NP or an adjective which is morphologically identical to an eventive noun ⇒ Apply LVC-specific decision tree ⇒ LVC tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category LVC
• Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VID
• It is not a VMWE, exit
• Another category ⇒ Apply the VID-specific tests ⇒ VID tests positive?
• Annotate as a VMWE of category VID
• It is not a VMWE, exit

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