We analyze the current annotation of SE constructions, i.e. verbal constructions marked by the clitic se and its cognates across five Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian and Spanish) in several Universal Dependencies treebanks (version 2.17). We discuss the morphologic, syntactic and semantic characteristics of such constructions in each of the languages considered, both from a theoretical perspective and from that of existing annotation. To address inconsistencies in the data and strengthen Universal Dependencies as a scaffold for the automatic conversion of morphosyntactic annotation into semantic representations (Uniform Meaning Representation), we propose a clear distinction between argumental and non-argumental uses of the reflexive clitic, and outline systematic ways to implement this distinction in annotation guidelines. We also examine how some of the reported inconsistencies are handled in the treebanks under study and discuss the extent to which these practices can be extended to other treebanks, within the same or across different languages.

We are very grateful to the reviewers for their comments, most of which we have implemented. We were not able to fully address the following points: 1. "Preliminary comparison metrics (e.g. parsing accuracy gain) between the old TTL and the new RODNA syntactic annotations on overlapping data": TTL did not provide syntactic annotations. Preliminary experiments with RODNA are described in the paper, where the tool is compared to STANZA and Trankit. 2. "For ADAMo, what specific features distinguish Moldovan from standard Romanian in the added texts, and how will variety differences be quantified": these experiments are still at a preliminary stage. 3. "Providing example queries/snippets illustrating syntactic annotations": since this annotation layer is not yet indexed in CoRoLa, we cannot provide examples from CoRoLa. However, the syntactic annotation available for German in KorAP (korap.ids-mannheim.de) offers an indication of how such annotations could be queried and displayed in the future.