agreement
Let an agent explain grammatical agreement by feature and language, help learners and writers apply it, and separate agreement in the sense of contracts or consent.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Features What agrees.
Identify
Features.
Identify
Agreement features.
- Which words agree here, and in which features? definition
- What controls the agreement? definition
Types
Kinds.
Types
Agreement types.
- Is this subject-verb or noun-adjective agreement? definition
- Does the language mark gender or case? provenance
Usage Applying rules.
Errors
Corrections.
Errors
Errors.
- Is there an agreement error in this sentence? boundary
- What is the correct form? action
Variation
Accepted variation.
Variation
Variation.
- Is notional agreement, such as with collective nouns, acceptable here? provenance
- What do style guides say? provenance
Languages Comparison.
Compare
Across languages.
Compare
Comparison.
- How does agreement in this language differ from English? definition
- Which grammar describes it? provenance
Learning
Learners.
Learning
Learning.
- Which exercises help learners master agreement? action
- Which errors are common? provenance
Senses Disambiguation.
Contract
Legal agreement.
Contract
Contract sense.
- Is a contract or legal agreement meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Consent
Assent.
Consent
Consent sense.
- Is agreement in the sense of consent or harmony of opinion meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.relation
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.REL
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- concord, number agreement, person agreement, case agreement, gender agreement
What it is Filled
The grammatical relation in which the form of one word is determined by features of another, such as a verb agreeing with its subject in person and number, or an adjective agreeing with a noun in gender, number and case; also called concord.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain grammatical agreement by feature and language, help learners and writers apply it, and separate agreement in the sense of contracts or consent.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Form depends on another word
- Features such as person, number, gender and case
- Varies by language
- Common source of errors
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Correct acceptable dialect or regional variation as an error.
- Assume English agreement patterns apply to other languages.
- Change agreement in a way that misgenders a person the text refers to.
- Mock speakers for nonstandard usage.
Only with a human decision
- Applying corrections across a published or legal text.
May
- Explain agreement rules of a stated language with examples.
- Check agreement in a text the user has asked it to edit.
Moral aspects Filled
- Judgements about grammar are used to judge people by class, region or origin.
- Grammatical gender interacts with how people want to be referred to.
Who is affected
- Speakers of nonstandard varieties
- Language learners
- People referred to in a text
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns grammar; speakers hold it, and language academies issue norms in some countries.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13818991-n - registry parent class
related
- linguistic relation - category
- grammatical feature - features
- morphosyntax - field
- agreement (contract) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.agreement-relation
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13819525-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Matching endings on nouns, adjectives and verbs
- Subject-verb agreement
- A contractual agreement is a different sense
- Not physical; seen in word endings and forms.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify agreement features in a sentence
- correct agreement errors
- compare agreement across languages
- separate contract and consent senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Over-correcting acceptable variation
- Assuming English patterns in other languages
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Language academy and style guide norms
Context of use required Filled
- Describing and applying grammar.
- subject-verb agreement
- noun-adjective agreement
- gender agreement
- case agreement
- polypersonal agreement
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13819525-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: agreement - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should agreement types be separate entries?
- How should language-specific rules be linked?
- How should other senses be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-agreement-relation/spec.json