selecting and deleting/renaming tiers

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Christine,

     This type of detailed conditional selection of lines for  
exclusion only works when there is a match, not when the criteria for  
exclusion involve a non-match, as in your case.  More generally, the  
best approach to this type of work is to rely not on CLAN, but on  
replacement using a regular expression matching program, such as  
BBEdit on Mac, or Perl or AWK on Unix.  Basically, you want to start  
by running MOR.  Then run LONGTIER to make sure that you remove all  
carriage returns from your %mor lines, since this simplifies things a  
lot.  Then you use a regular expression to look for %mor, followed by  
anything, then followed by "v|"  and for these you replace %mor with  
%vhs and then delete all %mor using KWAL (as you already know how to  
do).   In BBEdit, for example, the search string is

%mor(.*)v|
replace by
%vhs\1v|

Here the \1 is a copy of the (.*) of the search string.  Different  
programs handle the regular expression matches in different ways.

I have never found a good regular expression matching program for  
Windows, but maybe someone else knows of one.
Good luck with this,

-- Brian MacWhinney

On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Christine Czinglar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to use the MOR program to help me code my files in a  
> syntactic way (constituents or phrases) to analyse verb placement in  
> second language acquisition of German. My coding scheme is too  
> complex to be done automatically, but some help from the machine  
> would be great. There are some frequent words (like adverbs and  
> pronouns) that are already constituents and I can use MOR to insert  
> these codes on a %mor tier that I later rename %vhs. This works fine.
>
> But I would also like to limit the insertion of this dependent tier  
> %vhs to utterances that contain a verb. There is a real %mor-line  
> (non-disambiguated but still), I could use for those purposes. Now I  
> tried to limit MOR to utterances with +s"*v:*" on the "real" mor- 
> line, but this doesn't work.
>
> But I hope there is some way to eliminate those dependent tiers  
> afterwards, using CHSTRING or something like this. I tried KWAL:
> kwal +t%mor -s"*v:*" prob-n24.mor.cex +o@ +o* +o% -o%vhs +d +f
>
> This deletes the right dependent tiers, but the output is restricted  
> to utterances without verbs. I would like to keep my original file  
> and have just those dependent lines deleted or renamed in that same  
> file that go together with a mor line without verbs.
>
> Can CLAN do this? Does anybody have an idea?
>
> Best regards,
> Christine
> -- 
> Mag. Christine Czinglar
> Lektorin
>
> Katholische Péter-Pázmány-Universität
> Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem (PPKE)
>
> Institut für Germanistik
> Germanisztikai Intézet
>
>
> Egyetem utca 1
> H-2081 Piliscsaba
> Ungarn
>
> Web: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/christine.czinglar/
>
> >


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