- CAUSAL Domain Relations
Relations of dependence among events, states, and objects.
- Volitional
- The relation between a deliberate, intentional action of an
intelligent agent, and its consequence.
- Non-volitional
- The relation between a non-intentional action or a state of an
intelligent agent and its consequence.
- Reason
- The relation between an event or state, and a deliberate,
intentional action by an agent. Often (but not always) lexically
realized in English through "because," "since" or "for the reason that."
- Enablement
- An event enables an event or a state when it removes the
obstacles that were preventing the latter from occurring.
Purpose
- Event A is a purpose for event or state B if A describes a goal
which an intelligent agent tries to achieve by performing B.
- Condition
- Event or state A is a condition for event or state B if A is a
cause, reason, enablement or purpose of A and A is an event or a state
which has not actually happened and is, thus, hypothetical.
- CONJUNCTION Domain Relations
Relations among adjacent elements that are components of a larger
textual element.
- Addition
- A relation in which one (or more) of the conjuncts are set apart from
others, sometimes for rhetorical purposes.
- Enumeration
- A relation in which all of the conjuncts have equal status.
- Contrast
- A relation which connects conjuncts whose difference is stressed.
- Adversative (Note: The difference between Adversative and
Contrast is unclear. We need examples in order to determine whether
they can be collapsed.)
- A relation which connects conjuncts whose differences are
stressed in the utterance.
- Concessive
- Event or state A stands in a concessive relation to event or
state B if A is typically not believed to be a result of B. Often
introduced in English by "(even) though."
- Comparison
- Entity A stands in the relation of comparison to entity B if the
speaker believes that A and B are in some sense similar.
- PARTICULAR/REPRESENTATIVE Domain Relations
- Particular
- Relates two textual elements (sentences, paragraphs, etc.) one of
which is a special case of the other.
- Representative
- Relates two textual elements (sentences, paragraphs, etc.), one
of which is an example of the other.
- ALTERNATION Domain Relations
Relations that are used in situations of choice, parallel to the
logical connector "OR."
- Inclusive-or
- The Inclusive-or relation occurs when any of the elements joined
by "or" can apply.
- Exclusive-or
- The Exclusive-or relation occurs when only one of the elements
joined by "or" can apply.
- COREFERENCE Domain Relation
The relation established among textual references to an object,
an event, or a state.
- TEMPORAL Domain Relations
- At: Two events happen at the same time (the events can be either
momentary or prolonged).
- After/Before: One event happens after/before another in time.
- During: One event takes place after the beginning and before the
end of another event.
