Nominalized adjectives (in nominal-like positions): their nominal dependents should be nmod not obl

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This was decided in a Core Group conversation about partitives ("many/ADJ of the books": nmod(many, books)). We want to make the rule as general as possible, so we think it should apply across the board to adjectives with nominal-like deprels (typically excluding predicative positions and amod).

English-EWT already uses nmod for most partitives. To review ones that are currently obl:

• with obls maked by "of": https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=691a7e4b05f69
  • "Tired of spam?" This is clearly a predicate (short for "Are you tired of spam?"), so leave as obl.
  • "Real Christian of you": What Adele Goldberg calls the Gossip Construction. Also implicitly predicative.
  • "Best of luck": An idiom which I can't really explain but perhaps it derives from the partitive?
  • "the most unlikely of locations": Shows a construction where a comparative/superlative coerces an adjective into heading a partitive.
  • "I can't give that good of a review": This is a degree construction where "that" marks degree and the of-PP is licensed by the construction. Not obvious to me what the right analysis is.
  • Other examples include "several of X", "the least of us", "the rest of X", "enough of a global message". nmod seems right for these.
  • TL;DR I think nmod is justifiable for all except "Tired of spam?" and "Real Christian of you" which are implicitly predicates. (root/parataxis ADJs should be checked manually)
• the above heuristic exclude predicates, most of which are obl-licensors. But there are cases that would fit nmod like "she is the best of the best". https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=691a8171a787b
• with obl+case other than "of", ADJ not root or parataxis: https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=691a824dcbd94
  • most of these should be nmod. A few of them are actually predicative, e.g. coordinated with root word or in parentheses.
• with obl+case other than "of", root or parataxis ADJ: https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=691a7fcda0290
  • most of these do not qualify ("Sorry about that") but a few of them do ("Best in Memphis")