Searching for Double Object Ditransitives

[Liam Considine]

Hey Chibolts Community,

I am working on extracting double object ditransitive occurrences from
the CHILDES corpus.

"John give me the cookie"

I've tried a handful of different searches on the %mor and %gra line.
I would really like some other people who are familiar with CLAN
syntax to check out my searches. I have already made a search for the
prepositional dative so I am trying for this search to exclude those
instances.

Here is my %mor line attempt:
combo +t*CHI +t%mor +sv*^(pro*)^(det*+qn*+pro*)^(n*+pro*) +k +r2 +u
*.cha

My first %gra line form:
combo +t*CHI +t%gra +s"1|0|ROOT^2|1|OBJ^((3|4|DET^ 4|1|OBJ2)+3|1|
OBJ2)" +k +r2 +u *.cha

My best effort %gra line:
combo +t*CHI +t%gra +s"(1|2|SUBJ^2|0|ROOT^3|2|OBJ^((4|2|OBJ2)+(4|
5DET^5|2|OBJ2)))+(1|0|ROOT^2|1|OBJ^((3|4|DET^ 4|1|OBJ2)+3|1|OBJ2))" +k
+r2 +u *.cha

I've selected the same data files from CHILDES as Anat Ninio does in
the book "Syntactic Development Its input and output." This seems to
be about 75% of all the files available.

With my bigger %gra search i'm getting about 1075 hits. Is this
consistent with the frequency of occurrence others have seen? Does my
syntax have any glaring errors?

Thanks for all the time and energy,
Liam Considine

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