E's comments: do commits to AD for joint actions ("shall we meet then" "OK") count as AD again. I'm really confused about OO and AD, I think I'm going by surface form. also, problems with influence-on-L in question form . are they all IR?
Editor's comments: I'd say that commits to AD for joint actions do not count as AD again. In general, we expect AD to be addressed since they are a command/ suggestion and it would be rude not to at least reject them somehow. But a dialog such as the one below is perfectly ok even though A doesn't accept the acceptance. utt4 doesn't even address the painting topic at all making it hard to claim it is an implicit accept. If I responded to a command such as "let's paint" by "is it my turn to cook tonight" it would be odd.
utt1 A: shall we do the painting tommorrow? utt2 B: sure utt3 I'll be around tommorrow utt4 A: is it my turn to cook tonight?
All non-rhetorical questions should be information-requests since the speaker expects an answer ("information"). I can't think of an example otherwise but maybe someone can come up with one.
1 A: so
2 we should meet again
E - assert, not influence-on-L/S, because of intonation and context
A - would ordinarily call joint offer/open-option, except this is
experimental setting, so really just an opener.
B - Picked open option and not assert because "I can't do that" sounds like
an ok response and "That's not true" sounds strange as a response.
3 how 'bout
4 how 'bout next week
E - AD as per manual p 12
A -jointly offering and asking commitment for that week
5 what day are good for you
6 what days are good for you
E - tagged correct-missp. even if it's same speaker. what else can it be?
A - assuming accept idea of meeting, asks a question
7 B: actually next week I am on vacation
E - should it be tagged as indirect answer to utt6? btw, no way in dat to
specify two backward functions with different antecedents
C - This utterance also provides an implicit answer to utt6
8 A: gosh
9 I guess we will have to meet the week after that
E - does it count as an assert? seems to pass 'that's not true ' test. OO or AD?
10 how 'bout Monday
E - as in utt4, AD, not OO. distinction between AD and OO difficult
to draw
11 B: Monday the tenth
F - SNU (p 21 "Dansville, NY") Other-statement because check question.
I didn't want to mark Hold, (i thought SNUs weren't HOLDs)
but DAT required that i mark agreement. (bug?)
E - SNU like 'Dansville, NY' in manual. could be 'Hold'?
A -more signal need for confirmation than real nonunderstanding
12 A: aha
B - answers are usually asserts
A - not an assertion since it's a clarification of the offer/open-option
13 B: well unfortunately my vacation runs through the fourteenth and I have
nonrefundable plane tickets
E - don't see why antecedent should be utt10 to 12, but really similar to ex p. 25
14 I was planning on being on a beach in Acapulco about that
point
E - utt13-14 could be a segment that rejects utt10
B - Should some of this be other level? Details are irrelevant to the task.
15 A: well
16 when are you getting back
17 B: I get back on the fifteenth rest up on the sixteenth
18 which is a Sunday and I am back at work on the seventeenth
E - initially included 19-20 as part of answer to 15+16 but instead they
address an indirect goal expressed by 16
19 but I have a seminar all day
E - not captured that utt19 explains why utt18 doesn't count as proposal.
need info rel for that
A -helpful answer (not strictly asked by question)
20 I think the first day that is really good for me
E - utt20-utt21 together. def of AD and OO not really clear
21 is the eighteenth that is a Tuesday
22 A: okay
E - AD because it's like "let's meet then". see comments on dialogue
23 want to have lunch
E - not sure about IR. note difference from 'Can you pass me the salt',
where a verbal response is inappropriate, while here is required
24 B: that sounds pretty good
E - again, problems with agreements to joint actions: does it count
as AD?
25 are you available just before noon
26 A: we can meet at noon
A -reject "just before noon", propose "noon"
M - previous proposal is for just before noon however I labeled it
accept
27 B: sounds good
E - usual problem with acceptances and AD
28 on campus or off
A -=asking them to make an offer of one or the other
29 A: your choice
B - answer but not assert
M - not hold just an answer
30 B: I say if I have got enough money to go to Acapulco
I have got enough money to go to one of those silly places
on Craig street
B - Sounds off topic, but is actually choosing off campus. The dia
logue was recorded at CMU. Craig street is off campus.
31 how about Great Scott
32 A: sounds great except they have been out of business for a while
B - Acknowledgements that are not accepts are usually communication
management.
33 how about some other place
M - directive - we have to go somewhere else
34 let us just wander up Craig
35 and pick one we like that day
36 B: that sounds pretty good
37 okay
B - If you listen to this, it sounds like a cue phrase, not like an
acknowledge or accept.
A - filler trying to get him not to interrupt.
38 I will meet you outside Cyert Hall
E - utt38-39 together. is it AD? yes, if "meet" is joint action. is
it an assert? probably not
39 at noon
40 does that sound alright for you
E - it is not a check question, is it?
41 A: see you then
E - usual problem with acceptance and AD
B - Is this a closing?
M - treat like "I will see you then" , constrained to answer
and accept same thing. so can't answer 40 and accept 38+39.
But maybe 38-40 is like a big check question.
42 B: roger over and out
B - SU-Acknowledge for "roger" and Conventional Closing for "over and out".
43 A: thought it was roger wilco
Z - Joke
E - don't think 43-44 are task-man
A - joke? correcting B, not asking for info.
M - correct misspeaking?
44 B: oh no it is what we always say when we are talking
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