Preventing the matching of Infinitives

[Leonid Spektor]

Liam,

	NOT marker is indicated by '!' character. In your example you would specify:

+s"!inf|to^v|*^prep|*^((n|*+pro|*+det|*)+((det|*+qn|*)^(n|*+pro|*+det|*))+((det|*+qn|*)^adj|*^(n|*+pro|*+det|*)))"

I would like to point out that as soon as search locates "v| prep| det|" it will stop. COMBO will not try to find all possible matches specified by search patter. So, "v| prep| det| n|" or "v| prep| det| adj| n|" will never be found by COMBO.

But, I just tested COMBO and it doesn't work as well as it should. I would recommend to you to use some other regular expression search application for searches that are this complicated. You can use KWAL command to extract only specific speakers and their associated "%mor" tiers from your data, if you are only interested in searching just some specific speakers' data. And then use "LONGTIER *.cha" command to make each "%mor" tier fit on just one line, in case your search application can not search across multiple lines such as the case when "%mor" tier wraps around. Meanwhile, I will try for fix COMBO.

Leonid.



On Mar 29, 2012, at 04:39, Liam Considine wrote:

> Hello Chibolts,
> 
> Is there a way to indicate in a +t%mor Combo command, a certain
> constituent that I do not want to occur in a particular location?
> 
> For example, what could i do so that the verb in this command is NOT
> preceded by an inf|to? I don't really want to indicate EVERYTHING that
> is alright there... just the few things i don't want...
> 
> combo +t*MOT +t%mor +s"v|*^prep|*^((n|*+pro|*+det|*)+((det|*+qn|*)^(n|*
> +pro|*+det|*))+((det|*+qn|*)^adj|*^(n|*+pro|*+det|*))) +k +r2 +u *.cha
> 
> Thanks for the thoughts,
> Liam
> 
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