:poss in consensus

[nschneid]

• consensus isi_0001.28 (snt. 27 in workset guidelines, last updated on Mon May 14, 2012)
  naval officials

  (o / officer
    :poss (n / navy))

  I would've used :employed-by or :mod here, definitely not :poss.

• consensus isi_0002.170 (snt. 207 in workset guidelines, last updated on Mon Mar 4, 2013)
  academic year 2011-2012

  (d / date-entity :year 2011 :year2 2012
    :calendar (y / year
          :poss (a / academia)))

  Suggestion: :mod

• consensus isi_0002.171 (snt. 208 in workset guidelines, last updated on Mon Mar 4, 2013)
  United States government fiscal year 2012

  (d / date-entity :year 2012
    :calendar (y / year
          :poss (f / finance)
          :mod (g / government-organization
                :ARG0-of (g2 / govern-01
                      :ARG1 (c / country :name (n / name :op1 "United" :op2 "States"))))))

  Suggestion: :mod

• Part/area of factory. Suggestion: :part-of

  • consensus nw.wsj_0003.25 (snt. 28 in workset wsj100-sent, last updated on Thu Apr 26, 2012)
    Areas of the factory were particularly dusty where the crocidolite was used .

  (d / dusty
  :domain (a / area
            :poss (f / factory)
            :location-of (u / use-01
                           :ARG1 (c / crocidolite)))
  :mod (p / particular))

  • consensus nw.wsj_0003.27 (snt. 30 in workset wsj100-sent, last updated on Thu Aug 16, 2012)
    Workers described `` clouds of blue dust '' that hung over parts of the factory , even though exhaust fans ventilated the area .

  (d / describe-01
    :ARG0 (p / person
          :ARG0-of (w / work-01))
    :ARG1 (c3 / cloud
          :consist-of (d3 / dust
                :mod (b2 / blue))
          :ARG1-of (h / hang-01
                :location (o / over
                      :op1 (p2 / part
                            :poss (f / factory)))
                :concession (v / ventilate-01
                      :ARG0 (f2 / fan
                            :mod (e / exhaust))
                      :ARG1 (a / area)))))

• End of time period. Suggestion: :part-of

• consensus nw.wsj_0011.5 (snt. 92 in workset wsj100-sent, last updated on Fri Jul 13, 2012)
  Government officials said exports at the end of the year would remain under a government target of $ 68 billion .

(s / say-01
  :ARG0 (o / official
        :mod (g2 / government-organization
              :ARG0-of (g / govern-01)))
  :ARG1 (r / remain-01
        :ARG1 (t / thing
              :ARG1-of (e3 / export-01)
              :time (e2 / end
                    :poss (y / year)))
        :ARG3 (u / under
              :op1 (m2 / monetary-quantity :quant 68000000000
                    :unit (d2 / dollar)
                    :ARG1-of (t2 / target-01
                          :ARG0 g2)))))

• consensus wb.eng_0003.23 (snt. 23 in workset wb-eng-0003, last updated on Tue Mar 26, 2013)
  Before the end of the decade , we may well see the unfunded liability zoom well past the original $ 400 million it took to build the original highway .

(p / possible
  :domain (s / see-01
        :ARG0 (w / we)
        :ARG1 (z / zoom-01
              :ARG1 (l / liability
                    :ARG1-of (f / fund-01 :polarity -))
              :ARG4 (p2 / past
                    :op1 (m / monetary-quantity :quant 400000000
                          :unit (d / dollar)
                          :ARG1-of (t / take-10
                                :ARG0 (b2 / build-01
                                      :ARG1 (h / highway
                                            :mod (o / original))))
                          :mod (o2 / original))
                    :mod (w2 / well)))
        :time (b / before
              :op1 (e / end
                    :poss (d2 / decade))))
  :degree (w3 / well))

• Highway's exits. Suggestion: :part-of

  • consensus wb.eng_0003.5 (snt. 5 in workset wb-eng-0003, last updated on Mon Sep 10, 2012)
    Already it is changing development patterns for the worse and causing localized traffic congestion around its exits .

  (a / and
  :op1 (c / change-01
         :ARG0 (i / it)
         :ARG1 (p / pattern
                 :mod (d / develop-02))
         :ARG2 (b / bad
                 :degree (m / more)))
  :op2 (c2 / cause-01
         :ARG0 i
         :ARG1 (c3 / congest-01
                 :ARG1 (a2 / around
                         :op1 (e / exit
                                :poss i))
                 :ARG2 (t / traffic)
                 :ARG1-of (l2 / localize-01)))
  :time (a3 / already))

  • consensus wb.eng_0003.20 (snt. 20 in workset wb-eng-0003, last updated on Mon Mar 25, 2013)
    If Route 288 has already created a $ 13 million road - construction in just this one exist , think of the liability it has created for all of its exits !

  (t / think-01 :mode imperative
    :ARG0 (y / you)
    :ARG1 (l / liable-41
          :ARG1-of (c / create-01
                :ARG0 r2
                :ARG3 (e / exit
                      :mod (a / all)
                      :poss r2)))
    :ARG1-of (c5 / cause-01
          :ARG0 (c2 / create-01
                :ARG0 (r2 / road :name (r / name :op1 "Route" :op2 "288"))
                :ARG1 (c3 / construct-01
                      :ARG1 (r3 / road)
                      :ARG1-of (c4 / cost-01
                            :ARG2 (m / monetary-quantity :quant 13000000
                                  :unit (d / dollar)))
                      :location (e2 / exit :quant 1
                            :mod (t2 / this)
                            :mod (j / just)))
                :time (a2 / already))))

• Shares of stock. Suggestion: :consist-of

  • consensus wsj_1129.1 (snt. 26 in workset first50, last updated on Fri Apr 19, 2013)
    Brush Wellman Inc. said its board increased the number of shares of common stock to be purchased under a previously authorized program to 3.9 million from 2.9 million .

  (s / say-01
    :ARG0 (c2 / company :name (n5 / name :op1 "Brush" :op2 "Wellman" :op3 "Inc."))
    :ARG1 (i / increase-01
          :ARG0 (b / board
                :poss c2)
          :ARG1 (n / number
                :quant-of (s2 / share
                      :poss (s3 / stock
                            :ARG1-of (p2 / purchase-01
                                  :prep-under (p3 / program
                                        :ARG1-of (a / authorize-01
                                              :time (p4 / previous))))
                            :mod (c / common))))
          :ARG3 2900000
          :ARG4 3900000))

[uhermjakob]

:poss is indeed a little tricky at times. Let me share a little of the original motivation.

As the AMR help page at http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/amr/lib/popup/poss.html describes it, the role :poss ("possessed by") is a very general form of possession. Often used with possessive pronouns, as well as of and 's .

We sometimes use :poss for pertainymns as well, when they are equivalent to semantically equivalent expressions using possessives/'s/of, e.g.

• naval officials = officials of the navy = the navy's officials
• Russian president = president of Russia

I agree that consistency remains a bit of a challenge. For expressions of the type "at the end of the year," different annotators have been using different annotations:

• end-01
• :part-of
• :poss

Our consensus was to use :part/:part-of only for physical parts of a physical objects. See http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/amr/lib/popup/poss.html
I would also hesitate to use end-01, as I don't really see a primary ending event here, and this solution wouldn't work too well with similar expressions such as "middle of the year".

[nschneid]

I understand that :poss originally had a very broad scope, but since then we have created roles for expressing more semantic entity-entity relations, such as :part-of, :consist-of, and :employed-by. My suggestions above assume that :poss is most appropriate for semantic possession/ownership, and is no longer appropriate for most other uses of the 's-genitive, of-genitive, or (for that matter) noun-noun compound constructions.

naval officials = officials of the navy = the navy's officials

True, but isn't this also paraphrasable as navy officials (which would suggest :mod, if not :employed-by)?

Russian president = president of Russia

I realize that the "official role in an institution" relation is not well captured by any of the more semanticky options at our disposal, which is why we fall back to :poss. Ideally we would have a frame for president. But I wasn't proposing to change these.

Our consensus was to use :part/:part-of only for physical parts of a physical objects.

The guidelines have unit of the company with :part. I don't see a need to limit it to physical parts, though we would need a variety of examples to ensure consistency.

For expressions of the type "at the end of the year," different annotators have been using different annotations

Another possibility would be end :subevent-of year, which suggests a temporal subdivision rather than a physical one.

[nschneid]

I should add that the original post lists all the instances of :poss I could find in the consensus that I thought had a better alternative. So changing them should not require extensive digging for similar cases.

[uhermjakob]

OK, I can see that in a few cases, :poss seems a bit weird. I'm personally fine with :mod for academic/fiscal year and possibly with :part-of for area of the factory.
For expressions such as mid-1950s, would middle be a :subevent-of the decade?

[mgeorgescu]

The suggestions for change given for the examples found in the consensus seem reasonable.

[uhermjakob]

OK. Consensus to change the :poss under academic year and fiscal year to :mod. Updated.

[nschneid]

Closing this in favor of #110.