2.5 Accessing token-level annotations

• specify p-attribute/value pairs (square brackets are required)

  > [pos = "JJ"]; $\quad$ (find adjectives)
  > [lemma = "go"];

• "interesting" is an abbreviation for [word = "interesting"]
• the implicit attribute in the abbreviated form can be changed with the DefaultNonbrackAttr option; for instance, enter

  > set DefaultNonbrackAttr lemma;

  to search for lemmatised words instead of surface forms

• the %c and %d flags can be used with any attribute/value pair

  > [lemma = "pole" %c];

• values are interpreted as regular expressions, which the annotation string must match; add %l flag to match literally:

  > [word = "?" %l];

• != operator: annotation must not match regular expression

  [pos != "N.*"] $\to$ everything except nouns

• [] matches any token ( $\Rightarrow$ matchall pattern)
• see Appendix A.2 for a list of useful part-of-speech tags and regular expressions
• or explore tagging with the /codist[] macro (more on macros in Sections 6.4 and 6.5):

  > /codist["whose", pos];

  $\to$ finds all occurrences of the word whose and computes frequency distribution of the part-of-speech tags assigned to it

• use a similar macro to find inflected forms of go:

  > /codist[lemma, "go", word];

  $\to$ finds all tokens whose lemma attribute has the value go and computes frequency distribution of the corresponding word forms

• abort query evaluation with Ctrl-C
  (does not always work, press twice to exit CQP immediately)