Lecture 6- Events and arguments

Question 1

Of the 50 most used words what is the most common?

Answer 1

The, 6% of words

Question 2

What category makes the up the higher amount of the 50 most common words do they make up?

Answer 2

• Pronouns, this means that they do not have a lot of meaning themselves but point towards nouns (are dietic)
• These make up 13 of the 50 most common words

Question 3

What category is the word ‘the’ a part of, how much of the 50 does it make up?

Answer 3

• Article/determiner (signaling specific thing)

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Question 4

How many of the 50 words are about time, what are these called?

Answer 4

• 4

- They are known as stative verbs e.g. be, have, will, would

Question 5

What class of words are about spatial relationships, how many of the 50 most common words do they make up?

Answer 5

• Prepositions e.g to, in, on , with

- Make up 10 of the most common words

Question 6

What is the final category in the 50 most common words?

Answer 6

• Conjunctions, they join two things together (connections between events)
• e.g. and, not, as, but

Question 7

What is the role of verbs?

Answer 7

They convey the events occurring

Question 8

What is an event?

Answer 8

• Is a point in time that has boundaries

- An event is essentially conveyed by a sentence

Question 9

What is the problem with incomplete sentences?

Answer 9

They don’t convey a whole event

Question 10

What are the participants of an event spilt into?

Answer 10

Have semantic (or thematic) roles:

• Agent/actor= is doing the thing
• Patient= who they are doing it to

Question 11

What is causal order?

Answer 11

The order of cause and effect

Question 12

What is temporal order?

Answer 12

The order of time (often the same as the causal order)

Question 13

What is another name of the roles of participants in a event?

Answer 13

The events arguments

Question 14

What do we track across events?

Answer 14

Time, space, causality and intentions (what is included in a situation model)