including ID tiers in kwal commands

Leonid Spektor spektor at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Nov 12 16:10:39 UTC 2012


Caro,

	KWAL allows specifying tiers that are not part of analysis in the output. You need to use "+o" option instead of "+t" option. Here is what your command will look like:

kwal +t*MOT: +t%mor: +o at ID: +s at locativesMOR.cut +u +d1 *.cha > locatives.cut

Leonid.



On Nov 12, 2012, at 09:19, Rowland, Caroline wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> We are trying to extract all mother utterances that contain locative verbs from a batch of transcripts (Manchester corpus) using kwal.    We have created a cut file containing a list of locative verbs (locativesMOR.cut) and have used the command:
>  
> kwal +t*MOT: +t%mor: +s at locativesMOR.cut +u +d1 *.cha > locatives.cut
>  
> This gets us exactly what we want except for one thing. We would like to include information from the @ID tier about the child’s age with each utterance. So for each utterance we currently have, for example:
>  
> @Comment:      ----------------------------------------
> @Comment:      *** File "anne01a.cha": line 127. Keyword: v|brush-past
> *MOT:  have her hair brushed ?
> %mor:   v|have pro:poss:det|her n|hair v|brush-PAST ?
>  
> But would like something like:
>  
> @Comment:      ----------------------------------------
> @Comment:      *** File "anne01a.cha": line 127. Keyword: v|brush-past
> @ID:      eng|manchester|CHI|1;10.07|female|normal|middle-class|Target_Child|||
> *MOT:  have her hair brushed ?
> %mor:   v|have pro:poss:det|her n|hair v|brush-PAST ?
>  
> (i.e. – for each line to have attached to it the ID tier with information about child age).
>  
> It doesn’t actually matter how the information about child’s age is provided – as long as we have it attached to each utterance. Is it possible to do this – either with kwal or another command?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Caro
> 
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