"The check selection constraint"

SEMANTIC CONSTRAINTS : Check selection

Overview

This constraint is used to check the compatibility of the assigner and receiver in a fuse. This constraint is used as well as the psense and category checks.

Proposal

The selection-restrictions check is proposed whenever the receiver is marked with animate and the assigner is not marked as both animate and inanimate. The marking of an item with both animate and inanimate is used to indicate that the animacy doesn't matter for that assigner. Thus, if a subject is animate (i.e. John), and the assigning verb is sit then sit should be marked with both animate and inanimate because it does not require animacy of the subject (unlike a verb like eat or think.

Implementation

Since the constraint is proposed with animate receivers, to pass the assigner must also be marked as animate, or else fail. This page written by Julie Van Dyke (vandyke@cs.cmu.edu), August 1997