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Appendix: Example sentences<br />

The following sample sentences are typical of Brazilian journalistic texts. All are<br />

quotes from 1996 editions of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper and theVEJA news<br />

magazine. The analyses given cover morphology and syntax, while secondary tags<br />

for valency potential and semantics have been filtered away (with the exception of<br />

the last sample). The purpose of the examples is to provide a coherent and more<br />

contextualised picture of the parser’s morphosyntactic notation and its<br />

differentiation potential, not to demonstrate its statistical performance (which is<br />

discussed elsewhere). However, some problems, uncertainties and errors are<br />

discussed in accompanying footnotes.<br />

Estudo [estudo] N M S @SUBJ><br />

revela [revelar] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV<br />

ação [ação] N F S @N<br />

álcool [álcool] N M S @P<<br />

sobre [sobre] PRP @N< 266<br />

memória [memória] N F S @P<<br />

Pesquisas [pesquisa] N F P @SUBJ><br />

norte-americanas [americano] ADJ F P @N<<br />

mostram [mostrar] V PR 3P IND VFIN @FMV<br />

que [que] KS @SUB @#FS-N<br />

doses [dose] N F P @SUBJ><br />

de [de] PRP @N<<br />

uísque [uísque] N M S @P<<br />

são [ser] V PR 3P IND VFIN @FMV<br />

suficientes [suficiente] ADJ M/F P @N<br />

atividade [atividade] N F S @N<br />

hipocampo [hipocampo] N M S @P<<br />

$.<br />

Essa [esse] DET F S @>N<br />

estrutura [estrutura] N F S @SUBJ><br />

de [de] PRP @N<<br />

o [o] DET M S @>N<br />

cérebro [cérebro] N M S @P<<br />

266 The postnominal tag @N< is, in fact, ambiguous in this case. It refers to an np-head to the left, but though the parser<br />

probably selected the tag in order to match the valency potential of ‘ação’, the flat notation does not distinguish between<br />

attachment to ação or álcool, respectively.<br />

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