gold-syn-0.2 2004-12-26, edited by Scott Farrar A main clause is an independent clause that can stand on its own as a sentence. If a sentence contains any embedded clauses, the main clause is understood as the matrix plus the embedded clauses. In the sentence 'John thinks that Mary is sick', 'John thinks that Mary is sick' is the main clause (Crystal 2001: 231). MainClause SubordinateClause A subordinate clause is a dependent clause that cannot stand on its own as a sentence. A matrix clause combined with a subordinate clause form a clause. In the sentence 'John thinks that Mary is sick', 'Mary is sick' is the subordinate clause. A free form of a language consiting of a root or stem plus at least one derivational unit. A clause is a minimal sentential unit including a predicate, all arguments of the predicate, and all modifiers of the predicate and the arguments. Clause ComplexLexicalUnit A syntactic word that is morphologically complex, e.g., a compound, free stem, or inflected lexical item. SyntacticWord is a syntactic unit occupying the lowest position in a syntactic construction. They are expressed as elements, or words, in a language. They are sometimes identifiable according to such criteria as: (1) they are the minimal possible units in a reply; (2) their phonological expressions have features such as a regular stress pattern, and phonological changes conditioned by or blocked at Word boundaries; (3) they are the largest units resistant to insertion of new constituents within their boundaries; or (4) they are the smallest constituents that can be moved within a Sentence without making the Sentence ungrammatical (Hartmann and Stork 1972: 256; Crystal 1980: 168, 383, 384; Cruse 1986: 3536; Mish et al. 1990: 1358; Pike and Pike 1982: 462). LexicalUnit A compound has at least two roots. NOTE: more development here. Compound Syntactic constructions are elements of syntactic structure that consist of more than one syntactic word or phrase in some syntactic configuration (Crystal 1980: 85-86). PhraseUnit A free form of a language consiting of a root or stem plus at least one inflectional unit. A phrase is a syntactic construction that consists of more than one LexicalUnit but lacks the subject - predicate organization of a Clause (Crystal 1980: 232-233; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 169; Pike and Pike 1982: 453; and Mish et al. 1990: 886). FreeStem is the class of form units whose members are decomposable into a root or roots and a derivational unit. They are expressed by the free forms of the language (Crystal 1985:287; Mish et al. 1990:1154). FreeStem FreeRoot Simple syntactic word is the class of formal units whose members are common to a set of derived or inflected units, if any, when all bound units are removed. They are not further analyzable into meaningful elements, being morphologically simple. Also, they designate the principle portion of meaning of the unit to which it belongs (Crystal 1985:268; Hartmann and Stork 1972:199; Pei and Gaynor 1954:187-188; Mish et al. 1990:1023; Matthews 1991:64). The relation between a linguistic unit and a linguistic feature. A feature inheres in its host. NOTE: this relation is distinct from the hasFormFeature which pertains to data structures. translates The relation between an orthographic expression in one language and some orthographic expression in another such that both expressions have the same or roughly the same meaning. This subsumes all structuring relations used for LinguisticDataStructures. As a naming convention to distinguish relations in data structure from other relations, all names of dataStructuringRelations begin with 'has-'. Any relation between form units. This relation expresses dominance between form units, e.g., (constituent `un' `unbelieveable') or (constituent `the house' `in the house'). All relations that have the linguistic sign as the domain. The prefix that is used to determine whether a property value is a "TODO" item. Specifies the default language used for new string values in this ontology. A reference to the property that shall be used for TODO annotations. The default value of this is owl:versionInfo. Lists all languages that shall appear in the language selection boxes. Lists the names of those tests that are deactivated for this ontology. Stores the allowed parents of a Class property. All values of the annotated property must be subclasses of one of the allowed parents. Specifies whether the annotated property is read-only in the Protege UI. The name of a Java class that is used to compute values of this property automatically.