Readerly, Writerly, and Arithmetic: Students Misreading Textual Spaces

<p>Data is from the CYP450 section of the corpus. 12/16 possible patterns are attested in 43 tokens (7 can't-tell).</p

A sample predicate for which the three prepositions <i>of</i>, <i>in</i>, and <i>by</i> are insufficient for capturing all arguments.

<p>Our representation of this predicate is the same as PropBank's.</p

Alternations for the five three-argument predicates.

<p>The maximum number possible is 4³. Data is given for the full BioIE corpus. The column labelled <i>tokens</i> shows the number of tokens for which no argument was labelled “can't tell.” The column labelled <i>X</i> shows the number of tokens with at least one argument labelled “can't tell.”</p

<i>Mediation</i>, a 2-argument predicator.

<p>Data is combined from both parts of the BioIE corpus. 2/16 possible patterns are attested in 2 tokens (2 can't-tell).</p

<i>Occurrence</i>, the lone single-argument predicate.

<p><i>Occurrence</i>, the lone single-argument predicate.</p

The tag set for verbs.

<p>The tag set for verbs.</p

Confusion matrix for Arg0 of both nominalizations.The denominator is 28.

<p>Confusion matrix for Arg0 of both nominalizations.The denominator is 28.</p

<i>Treatment.03</i> (medical), a 4-argument predicator (only Args 0 and 1 are shown).

<p>Data is combined from both parts of the BioIE corpus. 16/256 (4⁴) possible patterns are attested in 29 tokens (2 can't-tell).</p

Confusion matrix for Arg0 of <i>activation</i>.

<p>The denominator is 14.</p

The most frequent semantic roles for each syntactic position (c.f. Palmer et al.'s Table 6, 2005:90).

<p>Only Args 0 and 1 are indicated. <i>Association.02,03</i> are omitted. See Tables 43 and 44 for the raw data.</p