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[lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI



On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:19:46PM -0400, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> On a related note:
> 
> Robin, are you now allowing "zoi fu I am a blind alley fu si si This
> is right fu" as grammatical?  

Yes.

sumti6=( ZOI=( zoi ) zoiClause=( fu I am a blind alley fu si si This is right fu ) free=() )

> What about "zoi fu The beginning and fu si the end fu"? 

sumti6=( ZOI=( zoi ) zoiClause=( fu The beginning and fu si the end fu ) free=() )

For technical reasons I hope to eventually remedy, exactly *what* my
parser is doing with the SI handling isn't being shown, but trust me
that it's doing what you'd expect.

> I'd guess that your preparser can't cope with either, 

No, but I stopped using that several days ago in favour of *very* simple
Rats!-specific semantic tests in the PEG grammar.

> but what do you think is the Ideal Right Thing?

That depends whether one treats a complete ZOI clause as one word, four
words, or some other number.  If one treats it as four words, I think
that both of those should be legal.

-Robin

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