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2.6 Troponymy
Verbs in WordNet 3.0 are largely organised in terms of the hyponymy
relation, just like nouns. For instance, to amblc is listed as a hyponym
of to lualk. Fellbaum (1998: 79) points out that verb hyponymy is not
straightforwardly equivalent to noun hyponymy, however. She cites
Lyons (1977: 294) for the observation that verbs do not fit naturally
into the hyponymy paraphrase for nouns, without nominalisation:
(5) x is a (kind of) y
(6) ?To amble is (*a kind of) to walk
(7) ?Ambling is (a kind of) walking
Even Sentence (7) would not necessarily be accepted by all native
speakers. However, if the manner aspect of the relation is empha-
sised, then the paraphrase works much more effectively:
(8) To amble is to walk in an ambling manner.
(9) To V, is to V, in a particular manner/way.
Fellbaum & Miller (1990) dub such manner hyponyms, troponyms.
As Fellbaum goes on to observe, however, the complexity of the rela-
tion between a verb and its hypernym is much richer and more com-
plex than this paraphrase suggests and I will leave this issue here.
We will now turn to another major wordnet resource which ex-
plicitly addresses some of the problems with the original Princeton
WordNet - DanNet, a wordnet for Danish.
3 DanNet
DanNet2 is a lexical semantic database for Danish, conforming to in-
ternational wordnet standards; it was developed from a monolingual
Danish dictionary (Den Danskc Ordbog, ddo) as a collaborative project
between simple-dk (Centre for Language Technology at the University
of Copenhagen) and the publisher of ddo (the Society for Danish Lan-
guage and Literature, Danish Ministry of Culture). As of 2009, it con-
2 See www.wordnet.dk for download and general information; see http://andreord.
dk/ord/ to browse DanNet