<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Sebastian,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If you use +sxxx option you will get the result you want. The MLU counts words on %mor tier and xxx is never entered on %mor tier. The manual entry you are referring to is a typo it should have read <b>+sxxx.</b></div><div><br></div><div>You can easily test this by coping following 6 lines into a file and running commands "mlu filename.cha" and "mlu +sxxx filename.cha" to see the results.</div><div><br></div><div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>one xxx two .</div><div>%mor:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>det:num|one det:num|two .</div><div>%gra:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1|2|DATE 2|0|INCROOT 3|2|PUNCT</div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>three four five .</div><div>%mor:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>det:num|three det:num|four det:num|five .</div><div>%gra:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1|2|QUANT 2|3|DATE 3|0|INCROOT 4|3|PUNCT</div><div><br></div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 6, 2023, at 13:15, Sebastian Oliva <olivasebastian13@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hello! <div><br></div><div>I am trying to come up with a command that will give me the MLU in words for a file containing utterances with xxx. </div><div>I would like the command to count words that are on the same *CHI line with xxx, but not include xxx itself toward the MLUw. </div><div>I tried to use the -sxxx switch that was mentioned in the manual (screenshot attached), but was getting the error message, <b>"Utterances containing "xxx" are excluded by default. Excluding "xxx" is not allowed." </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>We are currently using: mlu +t*CHI +leng +sxxx -t%mor *.cha</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice would be appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>-Sebastian</div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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