------------------------------------------------------ Comments One tricky bit is that class 10 is the plural of both classes 9 and 11. For this I created two supertypes c9-or-c10 and c11-or-c10 (the eleven is first so I'll remember it's singular). Class 9 inherits from the first one, class 11 from the second one, and class 10 from both. Nice! I wrote these as infl-ltow-lex-rules, as that's what I had written down in my notes from class, but I wonder now why that works, because I am usually changing the NCL value. Perhaps because I am further constraining the value, rather than changing it entirely? Right --- further constraining something counts as "adding" information. The output is consistent with the input (which is why we have to go out of our way to make sure they don't spin). In building my test suite, I encountered some strange variations of the agreement system. Such as? (object concord) - ltol verb tense -ltol subject concord -ltow (negation) -ltow(?) This is an example of what's currently wrong with the way the customization script produces lexical rules. We just assume there's at most one affix, and call the rules ltow. For Zulu, apparently what you want is word-to-word (so [INFLECTED +] ltol, actually) for the negation rule. The question is how to figure out things like *that* from the questionnaire in the general case. One side effect of implementing tense is that I can no longer parse imperatives, which don't have tense markers. I felt this was an acceptable trade off for now. Indeed. Subject concords are implemented pretty much the same as object concords. The DTR value of subj-concord-lex-rule is verb-tense-lex-rule, because every verb form has both a subject concord and a tense marker, or neither. The agreement information is also pulled from the PNG values of the (one element on the ) SUBJ list of the input verb. "pulled from"? My grammar also generates as I would expect it to. A sentence with an intransitive verb generates two sentences: one declarative and one with the question marker. This isn't surprising, as we haven't provided any means of differentiating the two yet. With a transitive verb, there are 4 generations: the declarative/interrogative pairs as above, for verbs with and without the object concord. Nice! The double generation from declaratives is expected: Because we allow for intonation questions, the MRS for the declarative is underspecified between a proposition and question.