| <fs> | (Feature structure) analyzes a collection of features and feature alternations as a
structural unit. |
| Attributes: | | type | provides a type for a feature structure. | | Datatype: CDATA | | Values: Character string, e.g. word structure. | | Default: #IMPLIED | | feats | pointer to features. | | Datatype: IDREFS | | Values: list of individual IDs for features. | | Default: #IMPLIED | | Note | May be used instead of having features as content.
| | rel | indicates the relation of the given content to the actual content
or value of the feature structure. | | Datatype: (eq|ne|sb|ns) | | Legal values: | | eq | indicates that the actual content is that given.
| | ne | indicates that the actual content is not that given.
| | sb | indicates that the actual content is subsumed by the
given content.
| | ns | indicates that the actual content is not subsumed by
the given content. |
| | Default: sb | | Note | The <fs> element is the only one for which the default
rel attribute value is sb. For all others, it is
eq.
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| Example |
<fs type='agreement structure' rel=ns>
<f name=person><sym value=third></f>
<f name=number><sym value=singular></f>
</fs>
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| Tagset | additional tag set for feature
structures |
| Class | complexVal, metadata [and
indirectly also:] featureVal, globincl |
| Filename | teifs2 |
| Content: | Zero or more features or (feature) alternations. |
| Parents | bicond cond f fAlt fsLib if vAlt vDefault vRange |
| Children | alt f fAlt |
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT fs - - ((f | fAlt | alt)*) >
<!ATTLIST fs %a.global
type CDATA #IMPLIED
feats IDREFS #IMPLIED
rel (eq | ne | sb | ns) sb > |
| See | 16.2 |