NOTE: only did ontology lookup for verbs NOTE: structure shown by indentation, not by parentheses (I did not update them!) #Sentence TEXT 010 As CSA faces serious difficulties, the Czechs offer to buy back the French shares in their national airline (0 / "*root*" :POS * :wordscore (*scores* ) :* (1 / "text" :POS N ) :main (11 / "offer" :POS V Concept: @::offer>give 1809085 :mod (5 / "face" :POS V Concept: @::face,present 840986 :cc (3 / "as" :POS C ) :subj (4 / "csa" :POS @SUBJ ) :obj (7 / "difficulty" :POS N :mod (6 / "serious" :POS AJ ) ) :mod (8 / "" :POS PX ) ) :subj (10 / "czech" :POS N AGENT-1809085 :mod (9 / "the" :POS D ) ) :obj (14 / "buy" :POS V THEME-1809085 Concept: @::buy :subj (13 / "*trace*" :POS PRO ) :mod (15 / "back" :POS AV ) :obj (18 / "share" :POS N :mod (16 / "the" :POS D ) :mod (17 / "french" :POS AJ ) :mod (19 / "in" :POS P :obj (22 / "airline" :POS N :mod (21 / "national" :POS AJ ) :mod (20 / "they" :POS PRO ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Comments: - One mod attachment corrected, all else was correct - could not find role info for 2 of 3 verbs -- was I doing sth wrong - main verb (offer) worked fine - what about "buy back"? #Sentence The Czech Minister of Transportation, Jan Strasky, proposed on Saturday, January 8 that the State buy back the shares (just less than 20%) held by Air France and the Reserve Bank/deposit accounts in the national airline, CSA, so that they could be sold "to another partner, probably a bank." (0 / "*root*" :POS * :wordscore (*scores* ) :subj (3 / "minister" :POS N AGENT-propose :mod (2 / "czech" :POS N ) :mod (4 / "of" :POS P :obj (5 / "transportation" :POS N :mod (8 / "strasky" :POS N :mod (7 / "jan" :POS N :main (10 / "propose" :POS V Concept: @::project>offer 561550 :mod (11 / "on" :POS P :obj (12 / "saturday" :POS N :mod (14 / "january" :POS N :mod (15 / "8" :POS NUM ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) :obj (18 / "buy" :POS V THEME-propose Concept: @::buy :subj (17 / "state" :POS N AGENT :mod (19 / "back" :POS AV ) :obj (21 / "share" :POS N THEME :mod (22 / "(" :POS PX ) ) :qua (24 / "less" :POS PRO :mod (25 / "than" :POS P :obj (26 / "20" :POS NUM :mod (23 / "just" :POS AV ) ) ) :mod (28 / "hold" :POS V Concept: @::holddeposit" :POS N :mod (34 / "reserve" :POS N ) ) :main (37 / "account" :POS V :obj (36 / "*pro*-shares" :POS PRO ) ) THEME :mod (38 / "in" :POS P :obj (41 / "airline" :POS N :mod (40 / "national" :POS AJ ) :mod (43 / "csa" :POS @APP :mod (48 / "sell" :POS V Concept: @::sell 1766863 :cc (46 / "that" :POS C :mod (45 / "so" :POS AV ) ) :obj (47 / "they" :POS PRO ) THEME-1766863 :obj2 (52 / "partner" :POS N BENEFICIARY-1766863 :mod (51 / "another" :POS D ) ) ) ) :mod (49 / "" :POS PX ) :mod (54 / "probably" :POS AV ) :mod (56 / "bank" :POS N :mod (58 / "" :POS PX ) ) Comments: - Syntax pretty screwed up, but not that hard to correct - Again, many verbs do not match to LCS - For those that do, matching is easy - Issue of to-PPs for transfer verbs -- should they be Obj2 or treated like free PPs -- need to make decision consistent in LCS and Syntax