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Less-specific anaphoric relation

TUcurrent includes TUprevious, and TUcurrent is less specific than TUprevious. Let F be the most specific field in TUcurrent. The resolvent contains all of the information in TUprevious of the same or lower specificity than F. (See rule A-less-specific in Section 5.3.)

For example (see also (5)-(6) of the corpus example in Figure 1):

Utterance Interpretation
How about Monday at 2? Assume: 2pm, Monday 19 August
Ok, well, Monday sounds good. Monday 19 August