Amir Plivatsky

Implementing a concept of "optional alternatives" can maybe help to handle phantom words. The idea is that "optional alternatives" are to be used only if the sentence cannot be fully...

> At the end of parsing, if any phantom words are linked, then all of the connectors on the disjunct must be satisfied (of course!) else the linkage is invalid....

**Edited to complete it after a premature posting.** I need several more clarifications... > if a disjunct has a connector starting with `z`, that connector is ignored during pruning --...

I pressed ENTER by mistake out of the comment box and the default button "comment" got triggered... I will edit my post above to complete it. Please read it on...

I have completed the said post... I have more things to ask but they may be redundant (or get changed) depending on the clarifications. >1. Extend the LG API's in...

> > > if a disjunct has a connector starting with z, that connector is ignored during pruning -- its "invisible". As if it was never there. > > >...

What is the purpose parsing with islands? Is this for finding the exact location of the island words? The following just has a null word when using the modified dict:...

I wrote above: > spell set to 1 This was a strange typo - my intention was `is=1`. With it, it is as expected: ``` linkparser> !is=1 islands-ok set to...

> * How should it be drawn, in ascii-art? Conceptually, the zero-verb is kind of floating in outer space, not having any linear position in the sentence. It only has...

In PR #1225 I added 2 tests - for (1) and (3). They are skipped for now.