Tgrep Patterns

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Tgrep Patterns
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Patterns

• 59 patterns in total
• 14 categories

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Simple Tense

• Present, Past, Future
• This is one of the major items in the Fulton
  County general assistance program.
• The jury further said in term-end presentments
  that...
• Failure to do this will continue to place a
  disproportionate burden on Fulton taxpayers.
• Rhode Island is going to examine its Sunday sales
  law with possible revisions in mind.
• He stopped the bus and told the youths he was
  going to call the CTA supervisor.

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Perfect

• Present Perfect Past Perfect
• A person with a master's degree in physics,
  chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken
  Education courses, is not permitted to teach in
  the public schools.
• These have never gone out of style in
  Scandinavian homes...
• The case of the judges in the 58th precinct of
  the 23d ward had been heard previously and taken
  under advisement by Karns.
• The small shaft of blue had drifted down and come
  to rest at his feet.

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Duration

• Duration Phrases
• The other important difference between the two
  Constitutions was that the President of the
  Confederacy held office for six (instead of four)
  years, and was limited to one term.
• One of the most damaging tsunami on record
  followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November
  1, 1755 its waves persisted for a week and were
  felt as far away as the English coast.
• LAST
• God's mercy and patience will last forever.

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Questions

• WH-questions How, Where, When, Why, Who, What
• Where's Johnny, and why did you leave him?
• Yes/No questions does, did, do, is, can
• Can they stand rigid scrutiny?

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Other Basic Patterns

• Negatives
• The jury did not elaborate...
• Moreover, he said, many qualified young people
  are not going into medicine and dentistry because
  they can't afford the schooling costs.
• The petition said that the couple has not lived
  together as man and wife for more than a year.
• Passives
• In any case, I have always been treated with the
  utmost courtesy by Englishmen...
• In accordance with legislation passed at the last
  session of Congress, each Representative is
  authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk
  newsletters , speeches and other literature to be
  dropped in every letter box in his district.
• How many times must we get burned before we
  learn?

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Other Basic Patterns (Cont.)

• Causative HAVE
• Every legislator from Brasstown Bald to Folkston
  is going to have his every vote subjected to the
  closest scrutiny as a test of his political
  allegiances, not his convictions.
• Possessive ('s)
• Regarding Atlanta's new multi-million-dollar
  airport, the jury recommended...
• Existential there
• As of Sunday night, there was no word of a
  resolution being offered there to rescind the
  action.

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Comparatives and Superlatives

• Comparatives ADJ/ADV (than)
• ... a proportionate distribution of these funds
  might disable this program in our less populous
  counties.
• Karns said that the cases involved a matter "of
  even greater significance than the guilt or
  innocence" of the 50 persons.
• Superlatives ADJ/ADV
• The report called racial discrimination in
  employment "one of the most serious causes of
  family breakdown, desertion, and ADC dependency".
• Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the
  King James Version has been most generally
  considered the most poetic and beautiful of all
  translations of the Bible.
• as ADJ/ADV as
• This is an area nearly as large as Western
  Europe...

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Conditionals (If)

• If simple tense, future tense
• (a possible consequence in the future)
• For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your
  heavenly Father will also forgive you but if ye
  forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
  your Father forgive -- your trespasses.
• If past simple, would
• (a consequence that contradicts the current fact)
• ... if Breasted agreed, they would get a car and
  tour the country, visiting every kind of
  industrial center.
• If past perfect, would have
• (a consequence that contradicts the fact in the
  past)
• William A. Redding asserted that if the case had
  been heard in open court under rules of evidence,
  the testimony would have been completed in sixty
  days instead of five years.

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Relative Clauses

• With relative pronouns that, who, and which
• Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the
  Houston public schools, would ...
• Omitted relative pronoun
• The largest hurdle 0 the Republicans would have
  to face is ...

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Interjections

• Interjections
• An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of
  the classic myth that involves the rescue of
  Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was
  given last week in the warehouse of the Albany
  Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of "Hubba
  hubba" and "Yalagaloo pip pip"!
• Onomatopoeias
• They can be going along, doing little damage,
  then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of
  passes on you for touchdowns and put you in
  trouble.
• Colorful Languages

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Process
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Process

• Manually-written patterns with tgrep syntax
• VP ltlt ((getgottengetsgettinggot).(VP lt
  VBN)) passive GET Passives can be formed with
  GET.
• Generating matched sentences
• cg/cg63.cmb
• (TOP (S (NP (NP (DT The) (NNS conventions)) (SBAR
  (WHPP (IN into) (WHNP (WP which))) (S (NP (DT
  the) (NNS romantics)) (VP (VBD tried) (S (NP
  (-NONE- )) (AUX (TO to)) (VP (VB breath) (NP (NN
  life)))))))) (ADVP (RB no) (RB longer)) (VP (VBD
  corresponded) (PP (TO to) (NP (DT the) (NNS
  realities) (PP (IN of) (NP (NN thought) (CC and)
  (NN feeling))))))) (. .))