who, whom, whose: case and the lemma who — proposal
Proposal: accept ud-next (who, whom, whose: case and the lemma who (English)).
What exactly in mova.
- lemma who for whom, whoever for whomever;
- who/whoever:
Case=NomorCase=Accby syntactic function (rulesmova.ud-next.who-*in Converter mova ⇄ ud-next); whom/whomever — alwaysAcc, because the form wins; - whose with a noun (
nmod:poss) —Case=Gen|Poss=Yes; standalone —Poss=Yes.
Why.
- More informative. Case shows the role of who in a relative clause or question: the man who I saw (
Acc) versus the man who saw me (Nom). Forannotand RAG this is the role of the "gap" in the relative clause, one of the most valuable clause-level features (the UD survey digest «future», section 4, item 4). - More consistent.
- Personal pronouns in EWT already have
Caseby position (youNom2096 /Acc651). - Who pronouns are the only pronouns with case but without
Case. - GUM, GENTLE, LinES and ParTUT already write the lemma who for whom; EWT, PUD and LittlePrince do not.
- Personal pronouns in EWT already have
- Lossless into the 2.18 standard. The reverse rules are deterministic (
ud-next.who-case-drop,ud-next.whose-case-drop,ud-next.whom-lemma): dropCaseand restore the lemma from the form. A round trip of EWT 2.18 gives identity: 24 lemmas, 460 features. - The registry already allows
PRON Case=Nom|Acc|GenandPoss=Yes. Export to 2.18 and toud-nextis valid.
Evidence from the data (EWT 2.18, engine):
- whom with lemma whom — 23, whomever — 1;
- who pronouns without
Case— 447 of 447; - whose without
Gen— 13, all with a noun; - expected values after the rules:
Acc37,Nom410,Gen13 (Converter mova ⇄ ud-next).
Risks.
Casefor who is taken from the basic function, but in 2 free relatives and in one predicative case — from the position inside the subordinate clause (edge cases are described inconvert.md).- Whether EWT 2.19 will do this is not visible from the data (there is no
devin the snapshot). If it does not, export to "EWT 2.19" will go through the same reverse rules.
Check.
- Gates
udnext.whom-who-acc,udnext.who-case,udnext.whose-dependent(error); - hints
udnext.who-object-acc,udnext.who-subject-nom,udnext.whose-independent(warn); - the existing
en.morph.whom-acc(Interrogative and relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, what, that).
Origin. who, whom, whose: case and the lemma who (English), The pronouns who, whom, whose in 2.18: TODO in the guideline, #517.
Mova decides.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/dialects/mova/seeds/wh-case/