%gra and %mor tiers

[Topaloglu, Simge]

Hi Leonid,

Thank you so much, but I don't think this code works. It doesn't detect
anything, and I get the message "Strings matched 0 times" for all files. I
think the code needs to be modified, but I don't know how.

S.



On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:04 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Simge,
>
> You can use this command to make sure that only word “and” is found:
>
> combo +d7 +sg|SUBJ^m;and^g|COORD
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 19:37, Simge Topaloglu <sit591 at g.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to extract instances where the conjunction 'and' connects
> elements of the same syntactic category that form a constituent together,
> e.g., complex subjects like "John and Mary" as in "John and Mary like
> apples" or complex objects as in "John likes apples and pears" or - though
> I know this is presumably trickier - VPs as in "John likes apples and hates
> pears."
>
> The first code I tried for an *approximation *of what I wanted was combo
> +d7 +sg|SUBJ^g|CONJ^g|COORD +t%mor +t%gra.
>
> This found all subjects immediately followed by a conjunction immediately
> followed by the element that was conjoined with this subject. But as you
> will notice, there are things this code doesn't get. For example, I am only
> interested in *and*, but this code finds other conjunctions like *or* as
> well. I tried to incorporate this information into the code using the %mor
> tier (*coord|and*), but I think I made a mistake because I got a blank
> output. Also, while I can make this code work for subjects and objects, I
> don't know how I will extract cases of VP-level conjunction, because the
> heads of the conjoined phrases (the verbs) will not necessarily be
> adjacent.
>
> Any help for solving these problems would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Simge
>
>
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