#Sentence TEXT 010 As CSA faces serious difficulties, the Czechs offer to buy back the French shares in their national airline (0 / "*root*" :POS * :wordscore (*scores* ) :main (9 / "offer" :POS V :omega |offerjam| :wn 12170798 :mod (4 / "serious" :POS AJ :omega |dangerous| :wn 622670) ) :subj:AGENT (8 / "czech" :POS N :omega |Czech| :wn 7969950 :mod (7 / "the" :POS D ) ) :obj:THEME (12 / "buy back" :POS V :omega |buy>get| :wn 1739176 :mod (10 / "to" :POS @INFMARK ) :subj:AGENT (11 / "*trace*" :POS PRO ) :obj:THEME (16 / "share" :POS N :omega |share| :wn 11257485 :mod (14 / "the" :POS D ) :mod (15 / "french" :POS AJ :omega |French~France| :wn 2806726) :mod (17 / "in" :POS P :obj (20 / "airline" :POS N :omega |airline #Sentence The Czech Minister of Transportation, Jan Strasky, proposed on Saturday, January 8 that the State buy back the shares (just less than 20%) held by Air France and the Reserve Bank/deposit accounts in the national, CSA, so that they could be sold "to another partner, probably a bank." (0 / "*root*" :POS * :wordscore (*scores* ) :main (10 / "propose" :POS V :omega |project>offer| :wn 561550 :subj:AGENT (3 / "minister" :POS N :omega |minister>Haman| :wn 8462583 :mod (1 / "the" :POS D ) :mod (2 / "czech" :POS AJ :omega |Czech~Czechoslovakia| :wn 2809444 ) :mod (5 / "transportation" :POS N :omega |transportation system| :wn 3899395 ) :mod (8 / "jan" :FirstName "strasky" :LastName :POS N :mod (11 / "on" :POS P :obj (12 / "saturday" :DayOfWeek "january" :MONTH "8" :DAY :POS N ) :obj:PROPOSITION (18 / "buy back" :POS V :omega |buy>get| :wn 1739176 :subj:AGENT (17 / "state" :POS N :omega |state>Soviets| :wn 6778253 :mod (16 / "the" :POS D ) ) :obj:THEME (21 / "share" :POS N :omega |share| :wn 11257485 :mod (20 / "the" :POS D ) :mod (24 / "less" :POS AJ :mod (25 / "than" :POS P :mod (23 / "just" :POS AV ) ) ) :obj (26 / "20" :POS NUM :mod (28 / "hold" :POS V :omega |have| :wn 1736051 :mod (29 / "by" :POS P :cc (32 / "and" :POS C ) :obj:AGENT (31 / "air france" :obj:AGENT (37 / "account" :POS V :omega |BANK-ACCOUNT$NOUN| :wn :mod (35 / "bank" :POS N :omega || :wn :mod (X / "reserve" :POS N :omega |reserve>bank| :wn 11278002 :mod (34 / "deposit" :POS N ) ) :omega |deposit COMMENTS: - Didn't know how to treat conjunctions: in Van Valin's *Introduction to Syntax*, conjoined constituents are at the same level of dependency . . . is that specified in the dependency manual? - Not many of the high-level concepts (in uppercase) appear as superclasses of lowercase word senses (e.g. for "propose" and "sell") - are the high-level concepts the ones with the $'s? - do we want both the high-level concepts and the lowercase word senses? - I don't understand that step too well - For "propose" in the LCS verb list, the thing proposed is sometimes PROPOSITION and sometimes THEME . . . - examples would definitely help