Practical Grammar 2

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Your first grammar in xlfg

Please do the following:

You first log onto xlfg:

1. Go to https://xlfg.labri.fr/ and log in.

Then you locate our workshop:

1. Choose Workshops|All Workshops.
2. Look for the workshop "Practical Grammar".
3. In the column "Action", click the button "Consult the workshop".

Now you find a project of the workshop:

1. On the right side of the screen is the list of projects of our workshop.
2. Look for "Practical_Grammar 1" and click on "Create your own version".
3. Now click on "Edit your version".

You have now arrived in the grammar editor for the grammar "Practical_Grammar 1", where you can make changes to the grammar.

Look around a bit, but leave the buttons "Output Parameters" and "Output" alone for now.

Clicking on the buttons in the row beginning with "Sentences". Whenever you do, a window will open where you can enter or change information. Do not make any changes yet. To get to a different input window, just click on its button.

The four input buttons have the following functions:

• Sentences: here you can type in example sentences that you want to test.
• Declarations: here you can enter information that determines the behavior of the program.
• Grammar: this where you add phrase structure rules.
• Lexicon: the place to write lexical entries.

Exercise 2

We are now going to write a first grammar. The goal of the grammar is to recognize all the sentences from Exercise 1 in Week 1. Here they are one more time: