# Grammar Matrix **URL:** https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/c/grammar-matrix/5.md?page=2 [Latest](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/latest.md) · [Categories](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/categories.md) · [Tags](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/tags.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [Ill-formed MRS in some regression tests](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ill-formed-mrs-in-some-regression-tests/517)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ill-formed-mrs-in-some-regression-tests/517 "2020-07-01T01:52:55Z")
Some of the MRSs which had been added to the repository as part of regression tests are invalid. For example, the following MRS has a dangling qeq relation h0-h1: If I understand right, the fact that the h1 is only p… --- ## [Same lexrule, one instance works the other doesn't](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/same-lexrule-one-instance-works-the-other-doesnt/507)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/same-lexrule-one-instance-works-the-other-doesnt/507 "2020-06-30T18:09:56Z")
Here’s a mystery: I have a lexical rule A which is input to another lexical rule B. Lexical rule A has two instances which do not differ in anything but their orthography: when I use the first instance, I get a parse… --- ## [Filing Matrix Bugs](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/filing-matrix-bugs/489)
**Author:** [@kphowell](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/kphowell)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/filing-matrix-bugs/489 "2020-06-19T02:52:42Z")
Is github now the appropriate place to file grammar matrix bugs? Have we officially transitioned? --- ## [Valence change and verbs with no overt complements](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/valence-change-and-verbs-with-no-overt-complements/506)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/valence-change-and-verbs-with-no-overt-complements/506 "2020-06-18T00:46:41Z")
With the current valence change library, is it possible to model something like this Chukchi sentence: (1) inen- req -ekwʔi CAUS do.what -MYSTERY \`What are you doing to me?' \[ckt\] I cannot decipher the last … --- ## [Which part of root to unify S with? (Was: What can be missing from a decl-head-opt-subj mother?)](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/which-part-of-root-to-unify-s-with-was-what-can-be-missing-from-a-decl-head-opt-subj-mother/500)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/which-part-of-root-to-unify-s-with-was-what-can-be-missing-from-a-decl-head-opt-subj-mother/500 "2020-06-08T22:06:27Z")
I got a grammar from the Matrix which has argument optionality, and I expect a certain sentence to be parsed but it not. I have one S in the chart; I am not seeing any inflection issues or MC or COORD issues; interactive… --- ## [Complementizers and embedded questions](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/complementizers-and-embedded-questions/475)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/complementizers-and-embedded-questions/475 "2020-05-20T16:46:40Z")
I’ve overhauled the wh-questions and the clausal complements libraries to finally account for the fact that different verbs behave differently wrt embedding questions. In particular, I am assuming that: think (and sim… --- ## [Embedded questions and verb semantics (Was: Semantically active complementizers?)](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/embedded-questions-and-verb-semantics-was-semantically-active-complementizers/476)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/embedded-questions-and-verb-semantics-was-semantically-active-complementizers/476 "2020-05-20T10:15:59Z")
Related to this. Complementizers in the Matrix are currently raise-sem-lex-item which means they copy their complement’s HOOK. I am currently working on embedded questions and on modeling the differences in the behavio… --- ## [V-initial order, multiple adjuncts, and the in-situ rule](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/v-initial-order-multiple-adjuncts-and-the-in-situ-rule/474)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/v-initial-order-multiple-adjuncts-and-the-in-situ-rule/474 "2020-05-12T03:54:22Z")
Apologies for another thread which will probably result it “just live with this ambiguity” :). Consider (1): (1) Идет кто куда? Idet kto kuda? goes who where "So, WHO goes, WHERE?" \[rus\] (I added intonation to indicat… --- ## [ICONS identities and copying HOOK in parts without identifying it as a whole](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/icons-identities-and-copying-hook-in-parts-without-identifying-it-as-a-whole/479)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/icons-identities-and-copying-hook-in-parts-without-identifying-it-as-a-whole/479 "2020-05-08T11:19:28Z")
Related to this, so the answer may be “don’t do it” :). I created this type: ; OZ 2020-05-05 If there are embedded questions in the grammar, ; the complementizer needs to have its own opinion on the SF value. raise-sem… --- ## [What to do with QUE (and YNQ) in wh-question filler-gap phrase](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/what-to-do-with-que-and-ynq-in-wh-question-filler-gap-phrase/471)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/what-to-do-with-que-and-ynq-in-wh-question-filler-gap-phrase/471 "2020-05-06T12:33:48Z")
In the Grammar Matrix, we currently have several append-list-valued features: REL, SLASH, QUE, and, most recently, YNQ (for second position clitics in polar questions). I am trying to finalize some kind of (unified?) ac… --- ## [Matrix regression testing - running all tests failing](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/matrix-regression-testing-running-all-tests-failing/472)
**Author:** [@trimblet](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/trimblet)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/matrix-regression-testing-running-all-tests-failing/472 "2020-05-04T17:43:16Z")
Hey folks, When I tried running all of the Grammar Matrix regression tests on trunk, it failed. All of the grammars compiled but then all of the tests failed with a seemingly generic TSDB error that I couldn’t track dow… --- ## [Citation for mood library](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/citation-for-mood-library/468)
**Author:** [@kphowell](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/kphowell)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/citation-for-mood-library/468 "2020-04-28T21:56:44Z")
Is there a citation for the mood portion of the TAM library. I’m citing Poulson (2011), but since I also describe mood, I wonder if that should be cited as well. Laurie Poulson. 2011. Meta-modeling of tense and aspect i… --- ## [Negation vs Focus particles and scopal vs. intersective adjunct phrases](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/negation-vs-focus-particles-and-scopal-vs-intersective-adjunct-phrases/464)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/negation-vs-focus-particles-and-scopal-vs-intersective-adjunct-phrases/464 "2020-04-22T20:00:08Z")
Another clarification point about adjunct rules and particles currently supported by the Matrix. I noticed that, if I add both a focus particle and a negation particle, then, in at least some cases, I have both the adj-… --- ## [Grammar loads but goes into some infinite(?) loop at parsing](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/grammar-loads-but-goes-into-some-infinite-loop-at-parsing/456)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/grammar-loads-but-goes-into-some-infinite-loop-at-parsing/456 "2020-04-13T21:22:28Z")
I have a grammar which I obtained from the Matrix which loads but then breaks at parsing (any sentence, so far as I can tell). In the LKB, it seems to be silently spinning (regardless of the maximum number of edges that… --- ## [Cyclic extracted-complement rule](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/cyclic-extracted-complement-rule/457)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/cyclic-extracted-complement-rule/457 "2020-04-13T20:58:27Z")
The following rule works for my Russian grammar and for a number of regression tests but turns out to be problematic when I try a v-initial language (or maybe some other characteristic of the language is at play, I am no… --- ## [Determiner-noun agreement](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/determiner-noun-agreement/296)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/determiner-noun-agreement/296 "2020-04-10T22:40:05Z")
Currently there is no way to specify determiner-noun agreement via the Morphotactics page (and I checked, and it does not look like such agreement is implicitly assumed by the customization system). But determiners do … --- ## [Lexical rule losing CASE info](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/lexical-rule-losing-case-info/453)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/lexical-rule-losing-case-info/453 "2020-04-09T17:29:02Z")
Why would a lexical rule be losing the CASE information that it is supposed to be adding? Here’s two rules. The first one seems to work correctly: sg-acc2-lex-rule := case2-lex-rule-super & infl-lex-rule & \[ SYNSEM.L… --- ## [Spurious questions on copulas in Grammar Matrix](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/spurious-questions-on-copulas-in-grammar-matrix/442)
**Author:** [@trimblet](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/trimblet)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/spurious-questions-on-copulas-in-grammar-matrix/442 "2020-04-09T08:35:01Z")
Hi all, I was working on a mini grammar of English and I came across a spurious parse for “the dog is old” - with an extra (int ) phrase. I wonder if this is interference between the yes-no library and the copula functi… --- ## [When pied piping is optional: Some ambiguity vs. lack of some coverage?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/when-pied-piping-is-optional-some-ambiguity-vs-lack-of-some-coverage/446)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/when-pied-piping-is-optional-some-ambiguity-vs-lack-of-some-coverage/446 "2020-04-07T18:54:53Z")
While doing some final testing on fronting languages, I noticed some problems in my treatment of optional pied piping. Specifically I was not covering determiner extraction from subjects: (1) какой приехал человек? … --- ## [Particles in info structure library and head-adjunct rules](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/particles-in-info-structure-library-and-head-adjunct-rules/449)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/particles-in-info-structure-library-and-head-adjunct-rules/449 "2020-04-07T00:28:19Z")
Currently in the information structure library: if \_pos == 'before': rule = 'adj-head-int := adj-head-int-phrase.' rules.add(rule) elif \_pos == 'af… --- ## [Question particle as possible root head, being a complementizer](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/question-particle-as-possible-root-head-being-a-complementizer/447)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/question-particle-as-possible-root-head-being-a-complementizer/447 "2020-04-07T00:06:35Z")
Here’s some pretty established code from customize.py: has\_question\_particles = bool(ch.get('q-part')) if has\_question\_particles and has\_stative\_predicate\_adjectives: roots.add('root := \[ SYNSEM.LOCAL.C… --- ## [Regression test succeeding in the trunk, grammar not loading in LKB](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/regression-test-succeeding-in-the-trunk-grammar-not-loading-in-lkb/404)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/regression-test-succeeding-in-the-trunk-grammar-not-loading-in-lkb/404 "2020-04-06T15:57:34Z")
Here’s another regression test issue (oh what fun). One of the tests which is succeeding in the trunk (and failing in my current branch which is why I looked at it) is associated with a grammar that does not load with t… --- ## [Using a filler-gap rule for non-wh questions with second position clitics](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/using-a-filler-gap-rule-for-non-wh-questions-with-second-position-clitics/445)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/using-a-filler-gap-rule-for-non-wh-questions-with-second-position-clitics/445 "2020-04-04T00:47:52Z")
I added the analysis for second position clitics (from here, 567) to the Matrix and, on my Russian dev choices, what I am seeing is a filler gap rule licensing sentences like (1): (1) Ivan li idet? Ivan.NOM Q a… --- ## [Ambiguity with in-situ application in Japanese](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ambiguity-with-in-situ-application-in-japanese/444)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ambiguity-with-in-situ-application-in-japanese/444 "2020-04-01T02:29:20Z")
Disclaimer: I have not yet checked with Jacy because I cannot figure out a parsable input with all the correct whitespace etc. I am getting the following ambiguity from my current version of the Matrix: The sentence… --- ## [Subject raising auxiliary choices](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/subject-raising-auxiliary-choices/434)
**Author:** [@kphowell](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/kphowell)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/subject-raising-auxiliary-choices/434 "2020-03-06T20:40:13Z")
I have an inferred choices file that passes validation and customizes but doesn’t load. The error (in the lkb) is: Error in SUBJ-RAISE-AUX-NO-PRED: No possible type for features (CASE) at path (ARG-ST.REST.FIRST.LOCAL.C… --- ## ["Who do you know whether Kim saw?" MRS](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/who-do-you-know-whether-kim-saw-mrs/414)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/who-do-you-know-whether-kim-saw-mrs/414 "2020-02-07T19:02:39Z")
Recording this here so that I don’t forget; I don’t have time to look into this right now. I noticed that the ERG does not link who in the title sentence to the right predicate; it in fact links it to know (I think this… --- ## [SLASH list not empty but the structure unifies with the root?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/slash-list-not-empty-but-the-structure-unifies-with-the-root/406)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/slash-list-not-empty-but-the-structure-unifies-with-the-root/406 "2020-01-29T02:08:22Z")
(probably related to this thread: In-situ wh-words in languages which also do extraction - #29 by ebender) Why is the leftmost tree not ruled out by the nonlocal constraints on the root? (Note: this is a pseudolanguage… --- ## [InfoStr regression tests: running them with rtest](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/infostr-regression-tests-running-them-with-rtest/346)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/infostr-regression-tests-running-them-with-rtest/346 "2020-01-28T00:40:18Z")
Some of the regression tests currently fail if the new rtest.py system is used. It seems like in all the previous cases, rtest was discovering something that the old system was missing, so, in most cases gold profiles h… --- ## [Rtest not finding tests which it was finding before](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/rtest-not-finding-tests-which-it-was-finding-before/405)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/rtest-not-finding-tests-which-it-was-finding-before/405 "2020-01-26T01:13:35Z")
I used to run ./rtest.py wh\* and it would run all the tests which start with “wh”; but now when I do that, it reports that it ran 0 tests. I haven’t changed anything in the tests. What’s going on? --- ## [Need help interpreting MRS compare output](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/need-help-interpreting-mrs-compare-output/399)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/need-help-interpreting-mrs-compare-output/399 "2020-01-24T04:13:10Z")
I am investigating a regression test failure using the classic regression test system (not rtest, in this case). MRS compare reports diffs like this: I am confused: It is hard to read MRSs like this (and the unix… [Previous page](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/c/grammar-matrix/5.md?page=1) [Next page](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/c/grammar-matrix/5.md?page=3)