Figure 3From: Benchmarking natural-language parsers for biological applications using dependency graphsAdverbial attachment conventions. In (a), the lexicalised version of the Stanford parser attaches the adverb (RB) "constitutively" via an adverbial phrase (ADVP) to its parent verb phrase (VP). In (b), the unlexicalised Stanford parser skips this step and attaches the adverb directly to the verb phrase. These two representations are semantically equivalent.Back to article page