The module quant-vague-p.grm
recognizes phrases that describe vague or imprecise quantities, such as
"little bit", "very few", "a couple", "several", "quite a few", "a great
deal", and "rather a lot". Some of these are recognized as QUANT-VAGUE-P
phrases, which can used like the more precise cardinal quantities (e.g.
"quite a few people", "a great many stars"). Others are a special
kind of noun phrase, QUANT-VAGUE-NP (e.g. "a little bit", "quite
a lot") which can be used in the same manner as the phrase type QUANTITY-NP,
which is defined in module quantity-np.grm.
These phrase types are used in the modules quantity-p.grm
and npcomponent.grm, among others.