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Internally, the Constraint Grammar Parser assigns a number as an identification tag
to every constraint, in the order they are read from the constraint file. A further option useful for
evaluation and debugging is to have the identification numbers (e.g. #23, #1243) of all constraints
that applied to a particular word-form marked on that word-form. When numbering is used in
conjunction with operator marking (=0, =s!, =HEUR!, etc.), numbers are stamped before the
operators, i.e. to the right in terms of location. Output looks like this (the string ”map” indicates
application of a morphosyntactic mapping):
(”=s0#1620=HEUR!=s0#1415=s0#1389=s0#1367=s0#1444=s0#1482=s0#1503=s0#1517map#1
31<*resolution”
(”resolution” <*> N NOM SG (@SUBJ @NN>)))
(”=s0#1431=s0#1431=HEUR?=s0#1389=s0#1367=s0#1362=s0#1444=s0#1482=s0#1494=s0#1
504<*funding”
(”fund” <*> := <SVO> PCP1 (@NN> @<NOM -FMAINV(N) @ -FMAINV(N)
@AN>)))
(”=s0#1388=s0#1444=s0#1482=s0#1454=s0#1506=s0#1494map#76<*corp.”
(”corp” <*> ABBR NOM SG (@SUBJ @OBJ @<NOM)))
(”=0#558<said”
(”say” <VCOG> <SVO> <SV> V PAST VFIN (@+FMAINV)))
(”the”
(”the” <DEF> DET CENTRAL ART SG/PL (@DN>)))
(”=s0#1517map#141=0#1224=0#1224=0#1224=0#1224<auction”
(”auction” N NOM SG (@OBJ)))
(”of”
(”of” PREP (@<NOM-OF @ADVL)))
(”its”
(”it” <NONMOD> PRON GEN SG3 (@GN>)))
(”map#156<securities”
(”security” <BINDEF> N NOM PL (@<P)))
The word-form securities was mapped by mapping statement #156, and the word-form said had
one reading discarded by disambiguation constraint #558 (type =0). The word-form auction had
four readings (verbal ones) discarded by disambiguation constraint #1224 (type =0), the sole
remaining nominal reading was mapped by mapping statement #141, and one syntactic label was
discarded by syntactic constraint #1517 (type =s0).
The first three word-forms have a fairly complex derivational history. Note, in
particular, that heuristic syntactic constraint #1620 applied to the word resolution (cf.
”=HEUR!”), and after that the ordinary syntactic constraint #1431 applied twice to the word
*funding (cf. ”=HEUR?”). Section 19 provides further details.
Morphological heuristics, text-based heuristics, and quantitative heuristics are
marked by adding, respectively, the angle-bracketed features <MORPH-HEUR!>, <TEXT-