:poss and its reification

[jheinecke]

The documentation says about :poss

The relation :poss (“possessed by”) is a very general form of possession. AMR uses it only for possessives and prepositional >phrases with “of”:

(c / car
  :poss (h / he))

so here c (domain of the :poss relation) is the owned item (corresponding to :ARG1 of own-01 or have-03 )
and h (range of :poss) is the possessor (corresponding to :ARG0 of own-01 or have-03 ).
However in the reification table this is shown inverted:

Relation	Reification	Domain	Range
:poss	own-01, have-03	:ARG0	:ARG1

Is this an error in the reification table ?

[nschneid]

Yes I think you're right—:poss is an unusual relation in that, when reified with a predicate of ownership, the concept it introduces has a lower-numbered ARG than the concept it modifies.

[jheinecke]

Thanks! I'll modify the table and create a PR