Minimal recursion semantics

Minimal recursion semantics is like a game where you have to match different pictures together. You start with one picture, and then you match it with another picture that has something in common with it.

For example, let's say you start with a picture of a cat. You can match it with another picture of a cat, or a picture of a dog, because they are both animals. But you can't match it with a picture of a car, because that has nothing to do with the cat.

In minimal recursion semantics, we do the same thing, but with words instead of pictures. We start with a word, and then we see what other words we can match it with based on the meaning of those words.

For example, let's say we start with the word "dog". We can match it with the word "cat", because they are both animals. But we can't match it with the word "tree", because that has nothing to do with dogs.

So, minimal recursion semantics is a way of figuring out how words relate to each other based on their meaning. It helps us understand how different words can be connected and used together in language.