1.

General Instructions

In this task, our goal is to identify the participants and attributes of events. An event is
something that happens and changes the state of real-world entities, e.g., birth, marriage,
attack, etc. An argument, is an entity that is involved in an event, e.g., a person, a country, a
vehicle, etc. Also, attributes such as time and place of events are considered as an event
argument. An event might have multiple event arguments. Each argument takes a role in its
event. In an event mention, i.e., the sentence/paragraph that mentions the occurrence of the
event, all arguments might not be mentioned.

For every document, the word that evokes the event is provided. This word is called event
trigger. For each event trigger, its type is also given. Given the type of event, your task is to find
all participants and attributes of the event in the given text.

In this annotation we have the following rules:

● All participants (i.e., arguments) of an event should have a role in that event. All possible
roles for an event are provided in the ontology given by this guideline
● An argument is a real-world entity, time, or place of an event. Each role might be taken
by entities of specific types. The possible type of event arguments is provided in the
ontology given by this guideline.
● All mentions of an entity that is involved in an event should be annotated with the same
argument role.
● An entity might participate in multiple events. For each event, it will have only one
argument role.
● For an event mentions, it is possible that only a portion of its arguments are mentioned in
the text.
● Each role of an event might be taken by multiple entities
● Arguments might consist of multiple words.

Examples:
● A car bomb went off outside army headquarters
○ Went off is the event trigger and army headquarters is the place of the event.
● John Robert Bond was born in England.
○ John Robert Bond is the person for the event born.
● Ames recruited her as an informant in 1983, then married her two years later.
○ two years later is the time of the event married
● Ames recruited her as an informant in 1983, then married her two years later.
○ two years later is the time of the event married
● the Princess confided in him a great deal, especially in the years preceding her divorce.
○ Entities Princess and him are the person argument for the event divorce
■ NOTE: The reference to Princess by the word her is also annotated as
the event argument person as its referred entity is annotated in that
argument role.
 2. Ontology

Life
Be-Born

Marry

Divorce
Injure
Die
Movement
Transport

Transaction
Transfer-Ownership
TRANSFER-MONEY
BUSINESS
START-ORG
CONFLICT
ATTACK
DEMONSTRATE

CONTACT
MEET
 Phone-Write

PERSONNEL
START-POSITION

END-POSITION
JUSTICE
ARREST-JAIL