Depictives: three answers in the guidelines, advcl in the data

Gist. An optional depictive is an adjective describing a participant during the action (She entered the room sad). specific-syntax.md gives two outdated answers for it: acl and advmod. The 2.10 amendment and _en/dep/advcl.md say advcl. EWT follows the amendment.

Guideline.

• 2.18:docs/_en/specific-syntax.md:612: «Depictives are also represented with the acl relation»;
• 2.18:docs/_en/specific-syntax.md:876–878: «[<!> May be subject to change] Depictives … should be analyzed using the advmod relation». Examples: advmod(stuttering, unable), advmod(rest, assured);
• 2.18:docs/_en/dep/advcl.md:49–60 and 2.18:docs/changes.md No. 4 (05.2022, 2.10, AMENDMENT) «Optional Depictives»: advcl(entered, sad);
• 2.18:docs/_en/dep/acl.md:54: acl «no longer used for optional depictives».

EWT 2.18 data (engine):

• ADJ as advcl on a VERB — 208. Of these, without mark, cop and a subject, i.e. depictives — 22: came back dead, came into office obsessed with Iraq, died in its sleep aged 21, feed them … uncut, put it alone in a breeding tank;
• ADJ as acl on a VERB — 0;
• ADJ as advmod on a VERB — 11, and none is a depictive: strong-arm, effective immediately, Worse for Israel, Right "mouse" click;
• the guideline's own examples are annotated differently in EWT: unable — parataxis, and assured (rest assured) — a VERB with advcl.

Where the discrepancy comes from. The specific-syntax.md sections were written before the 2.10 amendment and not updated. Line 612 even contradicts line 878 of the same file.

Sources. 2.18:docs/_en/specific-syntax.md, 2.18:docs/_en/dep/advcl.md, 2.18:docs/_en/dep/acl.md, 2.18:docs/changes.md#optional-depictives, 2.18:docs/_u-dep/xcomp.md:202; report verbal.md, discrepancy 4.

rule: ud218.depictive-advcl
what: ADJ depictive as advcl on a verb without mark, cop and subject (2.10 amendment)
match: v[upos=VERB]; a[upos=ADJ, rel=advcl, head=v]
require: exists c[rel=mark|cop|nsubj|nsubj:pass|csubj, head=a]
severity: warn
source: UD 2.18 docs/changes.md#optional-depictives; docs/_en/dep/advcl.md:49

rule: ud218.depictive-advmod
what: ADJ as advmod on a verb — the analysis of specific-syntax.md:878
match: v[upos=VERB]; a[upos=ADJ, rel=advmod, head=v]
require: not a[rel=advmod]
severity: warn
source: UD 2.18 docs/_en/specific-syntax.md:878

rule: ud218.depictive-acl
what: ADJ as acl on a verb — the analysis of specific-syntax.md:612
match: v[upos=VERB]; a[upos=ADJ, rel=acl, head=v]
require: not a[rel=acl]
severity: warn
source: UD 2.18 docs/_en/specific-syntax.md:612

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