Multi-granularity dimensional measurements: feet-inches, hours-mins-secs etc.

[nschneid]

One form is to use commas: 6 feet, 2 inches tall. It can be paraphrased with "and": 6 feet and 2 inches tall. Treat the comma version as asyndetic coordination?

Then there are abbreviations: 6' 2"

And the colloquial form: "The bear dwarfed the 6-foot-1 Mr. Parenteau". Is the use of "foot" rather than "feet" here indicative of compounding (compound(foot, 6) instead of nummod(foot, 6))?

a few are matched by this query: https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=67a6dfa606291

[nschneid]

(Cf. multi-granularity locations like "Berkeley, CA" or "Section 104, Row D, Seats 1-4" or "Act 5, Scene 1". There, though, the parts refer to distinct entities and we can select the most specific one as the head. Measurements are essentially quantities rather than entities, so it seems wrong to say that "inches" is the head of "feet" or vice versa.)

[amir-zeldes]

Treat the comma version as asyndetic coordination?

Yes, we've been treating things like this as conj in GU corpora

[nschneid]

• X'Y format
• X'Y" format
• 6-foot-1