You can put formulae in either position.
e.g. To search for the adverb sempre excluding the conjunction sempre que, enter
"[Ss]empre" [word!="que"]
To search for phrases containing two or more words, use
[] (i.e. square brackets with no text inside) to indicate any single word or punctuation mark, or
[] {0,5} (the same, followed by curly brackets containing digits, to indicate the maximum and minimum number of words in a given position.
Punctuation marks can be searched for like words. To find the end of a sentence, use
"!|\?|\." i.e. exclamation mark, question mark or full stop (the escape character"\" preceding the question mark and the full stop ensures that they are interpreted as specific letters and not as wild cards).
To find the end of a clause, use:
"!|\?|\.|,|;|:"
To find the word "Porém" at the beginning of sentence, with the whole of the preceding sentence, use:
: [] "\." "Porém".
How could you use this to find enclitic pronouns (i.e. pronouns added to the end of the verb form)?The main Part of Speech tags are:
N Noun V Verb PERS personal pronoun PRP Preposition ADV adverb ADJ Adjective DET Determiner (articles, demonstratives) KS Subordinating ConjunctionSubclasses of noun and verb are indicated by additional tags
attached to the main tag by the underline symbol "_".
N_prop
proper noun (also PROP),
To get a better idea of the POS tags used, select "Distribuição
da
categoria
gramatical (PoS)" in the Resultados box of AC/DC.
[pos="N.*"] will find all nouns. (The search formula needs to use the wildcard character ".*", to allow for subcategories, unless these are specifically included).
[pos="DET.*"] [pos="N.*"] will find all sequences of determiner plus noun
"o?" [pos="N.*"] will find all sequences of o or os followed by nouns
[word="o?" & pos="DET.*"]
will find all cases of o or
os which are determiners
(rather than pronouns)
[word="c|Compra" & pos="N.*"] will
find all cases of the singular noun compra
but no forms of the of the verb comprar.
(Compare the effects of using [lema="compra"]
Note that you have to use the word=".." format whenever you wish
to combine a letter search and a category search.
Challenges
Find verbs taking "de" as their preposition
Find when you can omit the article before
possessives
PR_IND | presente do indicativo |
INF | infinitivo |
GER | gerúndio |
IMPF_IND | imperfeito do indicativo |
PCP | particípio passado |
IMPF_SUBJ | imperfeito do conjuntivo |
FUT_IND | futuro do indicativo |
PR_SUBJ | presente do conjuntivo |
FUT_SUBJ | futuro do conjuntivo |
FUT_IND | futuro do indicativo |
COND | condicional |
MQP_IND | mais que perfeito simples |
PS_IND | perfeito do indicativo |
PS/MQP_IND | perfeito ou mais que perfeito |