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Preliminaries - Truth values -Susan writes -Susan is a writer - Individuals Therefore our model has : n E a » Properties » Relations » Susan ¡s tall » Susan is against Bill =TALL(s) »AGAINST(s,b) » Susan isa dancer » Susan dances »DANCER(s) »DANCE(s,e) = Susan kissed Fred »KISS (sf, e) + E [| KISS(x,y,e)) ' To bereadas: the triple belongs in the set [KISS], ¡.e. the set of triples such that the first entitiy ¡s the individual who kisses, the second one is the individual kissed and thethird is a kissing event. 1 € [| EATIxel Be E felFAST(e) + Toberead as: the couple belongs in the set [EAT] (¡.e. the set of couples such that the first entitiy is the individual who eats and the second one is an eating event) and e, belongs in the set [FAST] of fast events. : cn | An important parallelism Predicates of individuals Player: x[PLAYER (x)] short: x[SHORT(x)] tall: x[TALL(x)] m tes of events econ») eat: EATING(x,y,e) healthy: HEALTHY(e) unhealthy: UNHEALTHY(e) bles Micaton over event val Just as we quantify over individuals in LF formulas like We can now quantifier over events in LF formuals like [Some x: STUDENT (x)] INTELLIGENT (x) [Some e] EAT (pete,e) £l FAST(e) L Some students is intelligent L Sometimes Pete eats fast [Most x: TOURIST (x)] IN (x paris) [Most e] READ(pete,shakespeare,e) L Most tourists are in Paris L Pete mostly reads Shakespeare [All e] EAT (Phil,e) 8: AT (e,lioni's) L Phil always eats at Lioni's Predicting entailment | p8q>p q | Án ambiguous sentence Interpretation 1: There was no brutal attack on the mailman by Shelby Ly [Some e: ATTACK(shelby, the mailman,e)] BRUTAL (e) Interpretation 2: Shelby attacked the mailman but he didn't do so brutally Ly [Some e: ATTACK(shelby,the mailman,e)] >BRUTAL(e) L Susan greeted each student [Every x: STUDENTO)] [e ] GREET(susan,x,e) Capturing (at least some varieties of) subordination: the case of bare infinitive clauses subordinated to perception verbs Some examples If the logical form of E a Lauri saw Richard kiss Meg 4 Paul heard Mary shut the shades E Meg saw the wind blow the clouds away Susan saw the thief move behind the curtain [3 e:SEE(laurix,e)] [3 e KISS(rich,meg,e)] T [3e 3e*SEE(laurie”, s 81 KISS(rich,meg,e)] [soma sya ts Laa sos an sent) as [3 €e:SEE(lauri,richard,e)] Lauri saw Richard L F pues saw the wind blow the clouds away -» > -— Meg saw the wind Ususan saw the thief move behind the curtain - does note -— Susan saw the thief ea) Assignment | Translate the following English sentences to LF formulas (if the sentence is ambiguous provide the two relevant LFs) - Susan welcomed Brad warmly yesterday - Johnny mostly drinks tea Susan didn't see Meg at the party Meg never drinks Meg always drinks two liquors Susan heard John leave Sandy kissed Pete twice passionately John gave a book to each child 
