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Re: [jboske] grammar & pseudogrammar



la djan cusku di'e

> I should rather say that it sometimes produces the wrong answer, notably
> with the way it groups multiple sumti and the way it handles numbers,
> but most of the time its parse tree is quite sensible.
> It just is not *determinative*.

One particularly jarring case where it fails is in things 
like {mi na broda gi'e brode}, which is parsed as
{mi (na broda) gi'e (brode)} instead of 
{mi na (broda gi'e brode)}. This is particularly bad because 
the grammar goes to pains to produce the wrong parse,
when it would be straightforward to produce the correct one.
In fact, I think the current parse should be the correct one,
but for some reason it was decided that the other interpretation
is correct, against the parser. Either the grammar or the
interpretation should be fixed in this case, the status quo 
is nuts.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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