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Common: Structures with Common Implementations.
This module defines the categories that uniformly have the linearization
{s : Str} in all languages.
abstract Common = {
cat
Top-level units
Constructed in [``Text`` Text.html]: Text.
Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases e.g. "He is here. Why?"
Constructed in [``Phrase`` Phrase.html]:
Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "but be quiet please"
Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet"
Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling"
PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conjunction e.g. "therefore"
Interj ; -- interjection e.g. "alas"
Constructed in [``Sentence`` Sentence.html]:
SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains"
Adverbs
Constructed in [``Adverb`` Adverb.html].
Many adverbs are constructed in [``Structural`` Structural.html].
Adv ; -- verb-phrase-modifying adverb e.g. "in the house"
AdV ; -- adverb directly attached to verb e.g. "always"
AdA ; -- adjective-modifying adverb e.g. "very"
AdN ; -- numeral-modifying adverb e.g. "more than"
IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb e.g. "why"
CAdv ; -- comparative adverb e.g. "more"
Tense, polarity, and anteriority
Temp ; -- temporal and aspectual features e.g. past anterior
Tense ; -- tense e.g. present, past, future
Pol ; -- polarity e.g. positive, negative
Ant ; -- anteriority e.g. simultaneous, anterior
}