Mark a word as unnecessary

[Brian Macwhinney]

Matteo,
      It is surprising that we hadn’t already developed a code specifically for this.  However, it is easy to add a special form marker for this purpose.  User-defined special form markers begin with the letter “z”.  It could be @z:ex for extraneous or whatever you wish.  Page 47 of the CHAT manual describes this and says, "User-defined special forms can be marked with @z, followed by up to five letters of a user-defined code, such as in word at z:rftd. MOR will ignore or "skip" the user code and process the word.”

*CHI:	I went to at z:ex swimming to the at z:ex Spain.

If however, you want MOR to really ignore the word, you could have

*CHI:	I went &to_ex swimming to &the_ex Spain.

Because MOR ignores non-words beginning with &.

— Brian MacWhinney

> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Matteo Fiorini <matteo.fiorini at utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> how could I mark a previous word as unnecessary?
> The following is an example:
> 
> Target sentence: I went swimming to Spain
> Utterance: I went to swimming to the Spain
> 
> I'd add a code like [:: _] after the relevant word, signalling it in the comment line, but I was wondering if there was already an option for that. 
> 
> Thank you,
> Matteo
> 
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