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| Concrete Nouns - The distinction between agentives and the other non-agentive sets here is often critical to both analysis and generation. Illustrations follow: Note the radical difference in the parses of strings (1) and (2), below. (1) energy consuming systems = NP (2) systems consuming energy = NP + REL CL Systems is an agentive. This agentive code for systems and the non-agentive code for energy are the sole clues analysis has for parsing these strings) correctly. The standard passive-to-active-voice transformations will illustrate how agentive codes are used in generation: (1) The data was found by the window; (2) The data was found by the program. The agentive code for program is the sole clue generation has for transforming this string. |