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"abstract": "Auxiliary verbs are universally recognized as components of verbal constructions. While there is no shortage of scholarship on these verbs in various linguistic traditions, uncertainty still remains on the best way to annotate them for Natural Language Processing (NLP) purposes. This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of auxiliary verbs to gather insights into forms of representing them in an annotation scheme and raises some issues with a view to leveraging the potential afforded by them in different NLP tasks. Using Brazilian Portuguese as an instance language and Universal Dependencies (UD) as annotation model, we argue for (i) annotating inflected verbs as heads, (ii) annotating auxiliary interdependence in an auxiliation chain; and (iii) adopting a more consistent treatment of auxiliaries to encompass tense, aspect, modality and voice in auxiliation chains. We further propose auxiliary type as a feature to be annotated which can be easily implemented in existing and new treebanks with substantial gains in enriching the information that can be extracted for different NLP applications.",
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"text": "Auxiliary verbs are universally recognized as components of verbal constructions. While there is no shortage of scholarship on these verbs in various linguistic traditions, uncertainty still remains on the best way to annotate them for Natural Language Processing (NLP) purposes. This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of auxiliary verbs to gather insights into forms of representing them in an annotation scheme and raises some issues with a view to leveraging the potential afforded by them in different NLP tasks. Using Brazilian Portuguese as an instance language and Universal Dependencies (UD) as annotation model, we argue for (i) annotating inflected verbs as heads, (ii) annotating auxiliary interdependence in an auxiliation chain; and (iii) adopting a more consistent treatment of auxiliaries to encompass tense, aspect, modality and voice in auxiliation chains. We further propose auxiliary type as a feature to be annotated which can be easily implemented in existing and new treebanks with substantial gains in enriching the information that can be extracted for different NLP applications.",
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"text": "As much as writing allowed knowledge transfer among individuals, it today supports the transfer of human knowledge to machines. This happens through Natural Language Processing (NLP), and one of the ways to train machines to process text and learn to extract from text much of what humans do with it is through annotated corpora. Corpus annotation has thus become a way to formally record the implicit and explicit linguistic knowledge that can be gathered from texts. The result enables NLP to develop statistical models for training new human language technologies (Ide, 2017) .",
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"text": "Annotating a corpus is an undertaking that requires considerable effort in designing, executing, and reviewing an entire process. Since design involves the creation of models to represent linguistic information, the models are often reused in corpus annotation endeavors, both within a language and in languages other than the one for which the model was created.",
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"text": "One drawback of leveraging models is the fact that, because they represent facts of a language, they are to some degree dependent on the language the theory drew on for its study. The advantage of models' reuse, on the other hand, is that the use of the same annotation scheme becomes a means to compare languages. The comparison, in turn, makes it possible to create multilingual NLP applications. This is the aim of the Universal Dependencies (UD) model (Nivre 2015 , which is designed to be language independent. At the time of writing, there are over 200 corpora annotated with the UD model in just over 120 languages.",
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"text": "The fact that many linguists and computer scientists use UD and strive to instantiate it in their languages has promoted numerous discussions around its guidelines. One such discussion revolves around auxiliary verbs. Some languages, for instance, have opted for tagging tense and passive voice auxiliaries as AUX; others include modal verbs under this tag, and still others add aspectual verbs to the set. While UD does not require languages to follow a single standard, it recommends that only strongly grammaticalized auxiliary verbs be annotated as such. This, in turn, raises further discussion as to where to draw the line for an auxiliary to be considered fully grammaticalized.",
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"text": "This paper grew out of a concern on how to best represent auxiliary verbs in UD scheme towards building a proposal to leverage the full potential afforded by them in different NLP tasks. Drawing on Brazilian Portuguese, we contend that there are substantial gains to be obtained from (i) annotating auxiliaries as heads; (ii) annotating auxiliary interdependence in an auxiliation chain; and (iii) adopting a more consistent treatment of auxiliaries to encompass tense, aspect, modality and voice in auxiliation chains. We further propose auxiliary type as a feature to be annotated for the purpose of enriching information to be tapped from treebanks. Our proposal offers several benefits to NLP tasks, such as enhancing detection of subjects for information extraction by annotating inflected verbs as heads; temporal reference detection by relying on tense and aspect auxiliaries; and speculation detection by leveraging modal auxiliaries as cues for that task.",
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"text": "In Section 2, we briefly review the evolution of the concept of auxiliary verbs, highlighting the points that are important to our discussion. Section 3 discusses the auxiliation process and provides examples in Brazilian Portuguese for four types of auxiliaries: tense, aspect, modality and passive voice diathesis. In Section 4, we exemplify ways to annotate auxiliary verbs in UD, discussing their pros and cons and presenting a proposal to reduce different forms of annotation to an interpretation of auxiliaries common to all of them. Section 5 concludes our study.",
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"text": "The topic of auxiliary verbs has been extensively discussed in the last decades, a thorough review being outside the scope of this paper. We will focus hence on the works that most contributed to advancing discussions of the auxiliary verb concept, since this concept is fundamental to the decisions about the UD annotation scheme we would like to argue for.",
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"text": "Our review begins with Tesni\u00e8re (1959) , an author who compared auxiliaries to free morphemes, though ascribed to them a distinctive nature of being inflectional. Auxiliary verbs, for Tesni\u00e8re, help other verbs enable a subcategory transfer (in his account, of tense and voice) and are totally devoid of semantic content. Auxiliaries are classified as compound verb forms, as opposed to simple forms, and operate with auxiliated ones. Tesni\u00e8re described auxiliary verbs as those assuming grammatical functions whereas auxiliated verbs contribute with the semantics. Being acquainted with English grammar (he mentions the verb do as an auxiliary), he admitted other functions of auxiliaries, which he suggested when he used etc. in: \"One distinguishes between auxiliaries of tense (past, future), auxiliaries of voice (passive), etc.\" (Tesni\u00e8re, 1959, p. 403) . Benveniste (1974) elaborated on Tesniere's description, recognizing verbal chains of auxiliaries of tense, modality and diathesis (voice). The author coined the term auxiliation to refer to a process that syntagmatically joins an auxiliating form to an auxiliated one, avoiding the use of the term auxiliary. For simplicity, we adopt the term auxiliary verb, even when referring to Benveniste's work.",
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"text": "By including modal verbs as a further type of auxiliation, Benveniste evidenced that auxiliation chains are longer and more complex than previously believed; yet he did not include aspectual verbs among auxiliaries. Another important contribution by Benveniste was to show that there is sequential order for auxiliary verbs to occur, namely, modal -temporal -passive voice -full verb, within a process he called over-auxiliation. Despite acknowledging that an auxiliary verb is the verb that takes person, number, mood, and tense inflections in a compound form and showing compound forms made up by up to three types of auxiliary functions (tense, modality, and passive voice diathesis), Benveniste did not expand on the fact that, in the case of longer chains, auxiliaries after the first one do not take inflections. Neither did he explicitly state that the second auxiliary in a chain is auxiliated by the first one and so on. He did state, however, that an auxiliary of passive voice diathesis is always the last one in a chain before a full verb, because no auxiliary verb can undergo passive voice diathesis.",
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"text": "Another relevant contribution to the concept of auxiliary verbs was made by studies of grammaticalization, mainly after the 1990s. Heine (1993) does a survey of the different ways languages express features of tense, modality and verbal aspect, pointing out that the lack of agreement around a concept of auxiliaries is largely due to the diversity of phenomena. For Heine, one of the sources for linguists' disagreement can be traced to Chomsky's AUX, a universal category he introduced in 1956, which is in fact not directly related to auxiliary verbs. Heine's review shows that auxiliary verbs have been at times considered as main verbs, as non-autonomous verbs, and still as a different grammatical category of verb altogether. Likewise, in dependency grammars, auxiliary verbs are usually considered as dependent by some authors while others posit them as heads. Steele (1994, p.818 ) praised Heine's work for his survey of views on auxiliary verbs, but criticized him for not tackling issues such as which verb is head and which one is dependent in dependency relations. Kuteva (2001) , who set out to complete the work of Heine, remarked that the big problem is the fact that some linguistic traditions disregard the dynamic character of the process of auxiliation, which prevents new auxiliaries arising in languages from being recognized. For her, auxiliation is an ongoing process and auxiliary verbs can be found at various stages in this process. There is thus no limited set of auxiliary verbs and one cannot separate auxiliary verbs from the verbs that gave rise to them.",
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"text": "Prior to Benveniste, an auxiliary construction was seen as a set of verbs complementing each other: one of them expressing grammatical features and the other semantic ones. Benveniste posited over-auxiliation and included modal verbs in the auxiliation process. The chain of over-auxiliation, including aspectual verbs, conforms to the following sequence of occurrence: modal -temporalaspectual -passive voice -full verb (see Figure 1 ). Over-auxiliation is of key importance for corpus annotation, though it is still under-explored in accounts on the matter. Bearing in mind that each auxiliary verb imposes a non-finite form on the auxiliated verb, we can argue that, except for the first auxiliary, which holds inflections, all the other auxiliaries in a verbal chain are, concomitantly, auxiliated by a preceding verb and auxiliary to the following one, as shown in Figure 1 . This implicates that the traditional labor division ascribed to auxiliary verbs as representing grammatical functions and full verbs as representing semantic functions cannot be sustained. therefore, the verb auxiliated by devia is the verb ter. \u2022 ter [ter (have)], auxiliary of tense, requires the auxiliated to be a past participle form; the verb auxiliated by ter is the verb come\u00e7ar. ter is auxiliated by devia and is auxiliary to come\u00e7ar. \u2022 come\u00e7ado [come\u00e7ar (start)], auxiliary of aspect, requires the auxiliated to be an infinitive form and to be introduced by the preposition a; the verb auxiliated by come\u00e7ar is the verb ser. Therefore, come\u00e7ar is auxiliated by ter and is auxiliary to ser. \u2022 ser [ser (be)], auxiliary of passive voice, requires the auxiliated to be a past participle form. The verb auxiliated by ser is the verb implantar (past participle: implantado), which is the full verb in this sentence. Therefore, ser is auxiliated by come\u00e7ar and auxiliary to implantar. \u2022 implantado [implantar (implement)] is a full verb, auxiliated by ser.",
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"text": "A productive way to explore the concept of auxiliation is to focus on the concept of auxiliated verb rather than on the concept of auxiliary verb. An auxiliated verb may be an auxiliary or a full verb. An auxiliated verb is a verb that takes the non-finite form required by its auxiliary, is introduced by the preposition (if any) required by its auxiliary, and has the same subject as its auxiliary. Therefore, we may have an auxiliation chain whenever all verbs in a chain share the same subject. However, we cannot affirm that the verbs in a chain sharing the same subject are auxiliaries followed by a full verb, as it depends on which verbs will be considered auxiliary in each work and for what purpose. In auxiliation verbal chains, the first verb is only auxiliary and the last verb is only auxiliated (full verb), but the verbs in between are both auxiliary and auxiliated, which shows that these two categories are not mutually exclusive.",
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"text": "Brazilian Portuguese expresses tense basically through morphological desinence. The so-called tense auxiliaries ter and haver are used to express a previous past event within the past itself (1) and a previous future event within the future (2). For this reason, ter and haver are tense auxiliaries in some environments only, as in the following examples.",
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"text": "(1) Quando olhei, ele j\u00e1 havia atirado. (When I looked, he had already shot.) (2) No dia que voc\u00ea vier eu j\u00e1 terei partido. (The day you will arrive I will be gone.)",
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"text": "\u2022 it allows treebanks with other annotation decisions for auxiliaries to reconcile their annotations by simply adding a feature to indicate auxiliary type (no alteration in annotation needed, but merely addition of features); \u2022 it enables recovery of auxiliation chains, as a sequence of verbs and/or auxiliaries that present a value of AuxiliaryType and are followed by a verb with no value of AuxiliaryType (the full verb, which is the semantic head).",
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"text": "As we have argued in the preceding sections drawing on grammaticalization studies, auxiliary verbs are verbs in their own right, i.e., they are neither a closed class of words (they are open to new candidate forms to auxiliaries), nor are they a fully functional class of words (they can operate as full verbs themselves). Throughout this paper, we have put forward arguments in favour of annotating auxiliary verbs as heads in dependency relations whenever the inflected verb is an auxiliary verb, as in Portuguese auxiliary chains. Hence, our proposal is to leverage the role of auxiliary verbs in the syntax of the clause, both in determining the form of auxiliated verbs and establishing agreement with the subject.",
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"text": "We also proposed the inclusion of a new morphological feature, AuxiliaryType, with the initial values of Tense, Modality, Aspect, and Voice. This way, we move towards standardizing UD auxiliaries annotation, enhancing comparability between languages. By annotating information on auxiliary function at feature level, we can reconcile our proposal to annotate auxiliaries with that of other languages that may have adopted other annotation strategies, either because their auxiliary verbs are not inflected, or because they have decided to privilege the semantic head in syntactic annotation.",
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"text": "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. License details: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.",
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"text": "In fact,Andersen (2006) basically recognizes three patterns of auxiliary verb construction inflections: AUX-headed (the auxiliary is the inflected verb), which is the most common pattern; LEX-headed (the full verb is the inflected verb, as in Eneats, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Hatam, Koiari and Kwerba); and doubled inflections (both auxiliary and full verbs inflect, as in Gutob, Mombelo and Mumbami).",
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"text": "The word comunicado is the past participle of the verb to communicate and means both communicated and notification. Many past participles in Portuguese are employed as true nominals.3 Resultative constructions resemble a kind of diathesis where the subject has the semantic role of benefactive. Diathesis is the alternation of semantic roles: in the passive voice diathesis, the patient is the subject; in the causative diathesis, the cause is the subject.2 Among less grammaticalized auxiliaries in English, Osborne & Gerdes (2019) point out be going to.",
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"text": "In fact, some modal verbs such as querer, desejar, pretender are classified as full verbs realizing mental processes in systemic-functional descriptions of Portuguese. Likewise, in some accounts on auxiliary verbs, modals do not fulfill all the criteria to be considered auxiliary verbs(cf. LOBATO, 1975).5 The word sentido is the past participle of the verb sentir (to feel and means both felt and sense.",
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"text": "One feature of aspectual verbs that poses a challenge to their annotation as auxiliaries in UD is the fact that most of them require a preposition to introduce the auxiliated verb. UD does not provide a specific dependence relation to link this preposition to one of the verbs (since the preposition neither marks case, nor introduces a subordinate clause). We have opted for annotating prepositions for verb and noun arguments as ADP.",
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"text": "Magali Duran and Thiago Pardo are grateful to The Center for Artificial Intelligence of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (C4AI-http://c4ai.inova.usp.br/), sponsored by IBM and FAPESP (grant#2019/07665-4). Adriana Pagano wishes to thank the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for grant No. 310630/2017-7.",
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