Four meanings –
1. Person omits information from document
2. Person omits object from group
3. Report omits information
4. Person omits to do something (existential control)
When presented with
"It was omitted"
There is insufficient information to determine a meaning – the invocation is linked to ToOmit. Meanings can be represented by RELATION2 or RELATION3 – the larger is built.
"I omitted it"
It can’t be meaning 3 – still linked to ToOmit, but with meanings 1, 2 and 4 listed in link. If "it" is resolved to information, or the second object is resolved to a document, possible meanings are reduced – if the number of meanings becomes one, the invocation is moved to hang directly off the meaning (and the relation operator is changed if necessary).
During searching, if we are checking a particular meaning, we also check invocations of the general case, and check whether they include the specific meaning.
The current meanings are stored in the invocation link – a limit of ten – more than that and we assume all meanings (could use a bit and work it the other way, so meanings it is not – this would allow us to handle twenty meanings).
ToLeaveOut points to the meanings of ToOmit, but exists as a separate entity because the use of prepositions is different to those for ToOmit (to omit from, to leave out of).
I left out the details.
Leaving out the details
Leaving the details out
The details were left out.
The details of the report were left out.
The report left out crucial details.
ToLeaveOutOf
I left the details out of the report.
He left out of the report anything to do with Enron.
He left John out of the team.
He left out of anger.
She left John out of her will.
She left John out of concern for her children.
The details were left out of the report.
The grammatical context of the collocation needs to be identified - active, passive, participial. The actual modelling can use the modelling on the particular meaning, rather than duplicate it for the prepositional collocation.
ToLeaveOutIn
He left it out in the rain.
He left it out in the hope that no-one would notice.