Purpose

An Agent wants to achieve a Goal, or an object. A Means has been created or is used to allow the creator or a user to achieve a Goal. The Goal is a state of the world that does not currently hold but which the Agent wants to realize and is planning and/or working towards. In some cases, it is difficult to decide whether a noun phrase metonymically stands for the Agent or the Means (e.g. The goal [of this paper/seminar/project] is to determine ...). We mark these phrases as Agent on the first layer but also annotate them as Means on a second annotation layer. In some cases a Restrictor on the Goal state of affairs can be given prominence as a separate constituent. Talking about Goals frequently includes the mention of a Domain to which the Agent's Goal is relevant. The modest American goal of a threefold increase in capacity recognises this fact . The object of the tutorial is to help a student concentrate on his writing skills The prime goal of the programme was to help develop processes of scientific thinking in children . My goal in this book is to introduce the reader to Web programming applications. The president's economic goal for the country was to overcome the recession.