Mark a word as unnecessary

[Matteo Fiorini]

Thank you very much, Brian. 

This makes perfect sense.

Matteo

Il giorno mercoledì 15 settembre 2021 alle 13:24:58 UTC-6 macw ha scritto:

> 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.... 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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