MRS in Tatoeba

This is a small experiment to put MRS test suite sentences into Tatoeba corpus. The primary purposes of this experiment are to (a) verify the naturalness of the sentences and (b) bootstrap a crosslingual MRS corpus through crowdsourcing.

     
no. English Tatoeba url
11 It rained. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2481815
21 Abram barked. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2481838
31 The window opened. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2481909
41 Abrams chased Browne. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638106
51 Abrams handed Browne the cigarette. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638130
61 Abrams handed the cigarette to Browne. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638156
71 Abrams bet Browne a cigarette that it rained. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638181
81 Abrams knew that it rained. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638312
91 Abrams intended to bark. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638316
101 Abrams intended Browne to bark. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638320
211 Tobacco arrived. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2946378
251 The dog has been barking. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2509670
351 The dog is barking. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2482132
371 Did the dog bark? http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2509656
391 The dog will bark. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2509579
421 The dog couldn’t bark. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2489590
431 The old dog barked. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2509601
441 The dog barked softly. http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2946298

Issues

Issues that came up when putting MRS test suite sentences into Tatoeba (the bolded sentences/phrases are comments from Tatoeba’s user on some of the MRS sentences)

  1. @possible copyright violation: no issue, the test suite is MIT. In tatoeba, we can create a list can add the license on its title. See https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/show/166576. The same as the grammar they were part of, which is almost always MIT (at least ERG and Jacy are)
  2. This is not a good translation: Some supposedly grammatical sentences were deemed as unnatural by Tatoeba’s user, should these sentences be corrected to ensure that our grammars are parsing the right stuff?
  3. Sentences are machine-translated.: Are sentences from the MRS test suite humanly translated? Or are they generated using LOGON?
  4. I cannot think of any situation where this would be used.: Sentences from the test suite should validate the grammars’ correctness, so it’s understandable that some sentences are not very useful to Tatoeba’s user on the surface. Is there a page where it says which phenomenon/phenomena each sentence captures? How language dependent are the phenomena captures in the sentences?
  5. users can edit a sentence. See

https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2638181 that was edited to ‘Abrams bet Browne a cigarette that it had rained.’

Last update: 2020-06-10 by AlexandreRademaker [edit]