Conceptual Dependency ATRANS abstract transfer (give) PTRANS - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Conceptual Dependency • ATRANS – abstract transfer (give) • PTRANS – physical transfer (move) • PROPEL – application of force (push) • MTRANS – mental transfer (tell) • MBUILD – construct new information (think) • SPEAK – utter a sound (say) • ATTEND – focus on a stimulus (watch) • MOVE – move a body part (kick) • GRASP – grasp an object (clutch) • INGEST – ingest something (eat, inject) • EXPEL – expel something (spit)

Primitive Things • PP – Real world objects (people, things) • ACT – Real world actions (eat, give) • PA – Attributes of objects (size, health) • AA – Attributes of actions • T – Times • LOC – Locations

Connections - link actors to actions - dependencies - conditionals

Fry gives Bender the beer.

Bender received the Recipient/Donor Beer from Fry Relation Beer is the object from Bender R o Fry ATRANS Beer to Fry Fry gave the beer to Bender

Fry gave Bender the beer.

Past tense (P) from Fry P R o Fry ATRANS Beer to Bender

Fry will give Bender the beer.

Future tense (f) from Fry f R o Fry ATRANS Beer to Bender

Fry will give Bender the beer tomorrow.

from Fry f R o Fry ATRANS Beer to Bender tomorrow modifier

Bender went to the kitchen.

Change in location Kitchen P D o Bender PTRANS Bender

Zoidberg ate a shoe.

P o Zoidberg shoe INGEST from Zoidberg P R o shoe Zoidberg INGEST to dumpster

Bender smoked the cigar.

from Bender R o INGEST smoke bender to cigar

Smoking can give you cancer.

from one R o one INGEST smoke to cigarette Conditional Dependency c from health(cancerous) one to health(good)

Hermies threw the book at Zoidberg.

Zoidberg P D o PROPEL Book Hermies

P Zoidberg o D MTRANS Punishment Hermies

Fry told Leila that he gave Bender the beer.

from Leila P R o Fry MTRANS to Fry from Fry P R o Fry ATRANS Beer to Bender