Abandoned
Definition
Used when: the source argument is evidence that the speaker has abandoned their original utterance in the target argument. Abandoned is used if the target utterance is cut off in such a way that you can't readily tell what it would have been. However, as noted above, this is annotated on the source argument from the same speaker, which provides evidence that the target utterance was abandoned, rather than Incomplete
Distinctions
When considering cut-off or incomplete utterances, Abandoned is used when the source slash-unit provides evidence that the speaker of the source slash-unit has abandoned their previous speech in the target slash-unit (i.e. both source and target must be from the same speaker). When a different speaker cuts-off a previous utterance, this is not considered abandoned, and the cut off slash-unit can be annotated as Incomplete.
Examples
(153) A: If you have-
(154) A: click download.
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(154) -- Abandoned --> (153)
(207) Engineer: Um should I just-
(208) Engineer: I can give you [this.]
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(208) -- Abandoned --> (207)