tsdb(1) Sample Queries

Following is a list of example queries to the TSNLP test suite database (commands will be copied into the input buffer of the interactive tsdb(1) frontend for editing):

• list the names, supertypes and presuppositions of all phenomena:
  

  retrieve p-name p-supertypes p-presupposition.
  

• list grammatical test items (together with their categories) relevant to complementation phenomena:
  

  retrieve i-input i-category
    where i-wf = 1 & p-name ~ "[Cc]omplementation".
  

• list all grammatical sentences (and categories) with pronominal subjects:
  

  retrieve i-input i-category
    where i-wf = 1 &&
          a-function = "subj" && a-category ~ "PRON".
  

• extract all noun and prepositional phrases (together with their categories and the identifiers of the embedding test items):
  

  retrieve a-instance a-category i-id
    where a-category ~ "^NP" | a-category ~ "^PP".
  

• extract the matrix functors (verbs) and associated valency frames from the grammatical test items concerned with clausal complementation (for French and German data only):
  

  retrieve a-instance value
    where i-wf = 1 &&
          a-function = "func" && a-category ~ "^V" &&
          p-name ~ "^C_[Cc]omplementation" && 
          attribute ~ "(valency)|(subcat)".