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Sentences with V+Adj format (VA-statements) have the same syntax structure, whereas their semantic structures are always different owing to the semantic pointer of the adjective of V+Adj. In this paper we separate the verb and the adjective and start from the semantics of a VA-statement. The VAstatement can be decomposed into two statements, one formed from the verb (V-statement), and the other formed from the adjective (A-statement). We also point out the difference between the V-statement and A-statement and present a formal semantic representation using a fine-grained analysis of propositions in situation semantics. Then we propose that the verb and the adjective of V+Adj correspond to two kinds of predicates - relation and type, and give a formal model of the semantic pointer. An automatic analysis of the meaning of VAstatement is also presented. During the analysis, ambiguities that exist in VAstatements can be distinguished.
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Mao, Jj., Chen, Ql., Lu, Rz. (2003). Analyzing V+Adj in Situation Semantics. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_8
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