Before

Definition

Used when: the connective indicates that the situation in the source argument precedes or occurs before the situation described in target argument.

Examples

Example 1:
(1) A: we are going to start with an evaluation
(2) A: after we form small groups.
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(2) --Before--> (1)

Note: Since response dependencies point to previous slash units in a conversation, the linguistic cue "after" in the source slash unit (2) indicates the inverse relation "before" when depending on the target (1) slash unit.

References

See "Temporal.Asynchronous.Precedence" in the Penn Discourse Tree Bank Annotation Manual.