Special Batch Jobs

Miscellaneous: Batch Jobs

  1. Batch Jobs:

    Creating and running .xpl files.

  2. Special Batch Jobs:

    For verification and comparisons.

  3. Scripting:

    How to create automatic scripts.

Contents

Example Files
Running Example Files

Example Files

Example files end in .xpl. Generally, these contain a list of examples and comments. Here is a typical example file: 

"A Course in GB Syntax"
BY LASNIK AND URIAGEREKA


THE THETA-GRID AND X-BAR THEORY
 [1:4a]	 John slept
 [1:4b]	 John hit Bill
 [1:8a]	*John slept Bill
 [1:8b]	*John hit
 	
THE LF COMPONENT AND QUANTIFIER RAISING
 [1:10a]	 Mary likes everyone
 [1:12a]	 Someone likes everyone
 [1:13a]	*Who does mary like john	% Vacuous operator

The format of each line is explained below:

Lines beginning with a...
Double quote (")
This is the title line. Will be placed at the head of the batch window.
Percent sign (%)
This is a comment. Comments can also be placed on the same line as the example. Any material to the right of the comment sign is ignored.
Tilde sign (~)
This is used to temporarily skip an example when executing a batch file. Acts like a comment.
Left square bracket ([)
May also be preceded by a single space. Denotes an example sentence. The material between [..], and * and ? are discarded. The rest of the line will used as the input sentence.

Running Example Files

There are two ways to run examples in a .xpl file.

First, individual sentences can be selected manually from an example window:

To bring up an example window, use the Examples... button immediately above the input window. Individual lines can then be highlighted by triple-clicking. To run the highlighted sentence, click on the Run below the input window. (In general, text from any window can be run in this fashion.)

The second method is to run the entire example file as a batch job. To do this, select Start Batch... from the Run menu:

PAPPI will bring up the selected example file in a window and work its way down the file line by line. The sentence currently being parsed will be highlighted.

To stop the batch job, simply select Stop Batch from the Run menu:

Special Batch Jobs