Sentences of the people dataset.

The social environment described in this dataset includes twenty persons. In the second column, can be “Mum”, “Dad”, or the name of one of the other eighteen persons, can be “father”, “mother”, “sister”, “friend”, “cousin”, “Grandma”, “Grandpa”, “aunt” or “uncle”. can be a number or, in row 21, also “some” or “many”. The “(s)” denotes the possibility of a plural form. In row 15, and describe the profession in terms understandable for a preschool child, e.g. “the journalist writes in the newspaper”. The sentences in row 24 use the present progressive, as in “Susan is reading a book”. The sentences in row 25 (how-to sentences) are verbal prescriptions, expressed through the natural language, that are used to instruct the system on how to perform specific tasks in language processing.