QNP Textual Entailment with Polynomial Event Semantics

FraCaS textual entailment corpus has become the standard benchmark for semantics theories, in particular, theories of quantification (Sect. 1 of FraCaS). Here we apply it to polynomial event semantics: the latest approach to combining quantification and Neo-Davidsonian event semantics, maintaining compositionality and the in situ analysis of quantifiers. Although several FraCaS problems look custom-made for the polynomial events semantics, there are challenges: the variety of generalized quantifiers (including 'many', 'most' and 'few'); copula, existence, and relative clauses. We address them in this paper.