new test sentences

[kkasunperera]

@linas @ruiting Please review the newly added test sentences.

[linas]

Please change this to "tastes the same" not "tastes as same"

[linas]

I don't want to merge this right now; there seem to be far too many errors in this ... can you please fix?

[kkasunperera]

same question as above should it be as(smart, I)?

[ruiting]

as(smart, I) doesn't seem right either.. I'm confused about your decision on representing the "as" comparatives. I mean, for the above sentences, sometimes you used "than", sometimes you used "as", what's your criteria on that?

[kkasunperera]

@ruiting Well my intention was to use "as" as a preposition only, and "than" in comparatives. Please pointout any relationship doesn't adhere to this.

[linas]

In src/java_test/relex/test/TestRelEx.java:

•       "_subj(run, Mike)\n"+
  

•       "as(fast, he)\n"+
  

•       "_advmod(run, fast)\n"+
  

•       "_amod(year, last)\n"+
  

•       "than(Mike, he)\n");
  

•   rc &= test_sentence ("The kick was as soft as the first.",
  

•       "_predadj(kick, soft)\n"+
  

•       "as(soft, first)\n"+
  

•       "than(kick, first)\n");
  

•   rc &= test_sentence ("He is as smart as I ever expected him to be.",
  

•       "_predadj(he, smart)\n"+
  

•       "_subj(expect, I)\n"+
  

•       "_obj(expect, him)\n"+
  

•       "as(smart, expect)\n"+
  

There seem to be multiple issues here.

First of all, if the word "than" does not actually appear in the sentence,
then you can't use the relationship "than", you have to use "_than" with
the underscore.

Next, I'm pretty sure that the above should not have _than it them anyway.
I don't see why it should.

Next, I'm thinking that the "as" relationship should connect the main verb
of the dominant clause to the main verb of the dependent clause. It
should connect to the main noun of the dependent clause only if the verb is
unvoiced,

so above;
as(taste, do)
as(run, do)
as(soft, first)
as(smart, be)

right?

what does the stanford parser do for these cases?

[kkasunperera]

I have added _obj(taste, same) here. "taste" and "same" are connected through a "O" connector and "same" is acting as a prepositional object. Hope it's correct?

[ruiting]

_obj(taste, same) doesn't seem correct to me.

[kkasunperera]

@ruiting I was thinking that DD connector(which is between "the" and "same") can be used to connect determiners to adjectives when they
are being used as self-contained noun-phrases. In this case "the same" as a object. another example is "It applies to the poor" I got this idea from here http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/dict/section-DD.html (see last two paragraphs)

[linas]

_obj(taste, same) doesn't seem correct to me.

Right. This is a bug in link-grammar. Kasun, please change the test
sentence to "the coffee looks the same as it did last year". Somehow,
tastes/smells does not parse correctly. Also, please open a bug for me,
reminding me to fix this sentence (and that the fix involves taste->look)
-- I don't have github access this week.

[ruiting]

@linas I just opened a new issue for the copula bugs. #160

[linas]

I just pushed a fix for this in LG, so #160 is now closed.

[kkasunperera]

@linas I think it's good to merge now? unless @ruiting disagree on anything?

[linas]

thanks Kasun