<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Pierre-Alexandre<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your version of Luke's sentence is not grammatically correct since each noun phrase in ACE requires a determiner. APE gives you this *error* message</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="78" width="1107" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="5C9A0DB2-DD0D-40F0-9810-AEFFBA0B4456" src="cid:D0AA11D9-2B48-4933-9596-D4A66320B715@uzh.ch" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Luke</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Noun phrases with definite determiners could be anaphoric references to previously introduced noun phrases. However, English pragmatics requires often a definite determiner that is not an anaphoric reference. To cover this situation APE generates a warning whose text</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="210" width="1105" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="B55E17BC-938D-460A-A53B-96741221189B" src="cid:1A23AD86-54D3-415D-AB69-F8A2CB2EBFE5@uzh.ch" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>exactly describes what APE does. If you want to avoid the warnings and keep the plurals you could, for example, write "... some guidelines and some requirements...". May I invite you to spend five minutes on "ACE in a Nutshell"?<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best to both of you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> --- nef</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 29 Mar 2015, at 4:21 , Pierre-Alexandre Voye <<a href="mailto:ontologiae@gmail.com" class="">ontologiae@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">If you remove the 'the' in your sentences, you don't have warnings :<br class=""><br class="">p:NFPA-13 is a standard that contains guidelines and requirements for an installation of a n:sprinkler-system.<br class=""><br class="">APE understand that there several guidelines and requirements/<br class=""><br class="">Before :<br class="">object(B,guidelines,countable,na,eq,1)-1/14,<br class="">object(F,requirements,countable,na,eq,1)-1/19<br class=""><br class="">After :<br class="">has_part(E,named(guidelines))-1/'',<br class="">has_part(E,named(requirements))-1<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">2015-03-28 22:54 GMT+01:00 luke wallace <<a href="mailto:lukewallace1990@gmail.com" class="">lukewallace1990@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="">ape webclient: <br class="">http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/ape/<br class=""><br class="">if you paste the following sentence into the APE webclient you will get 3 anaphor warnings<br class=""><br class="">p:NFPA-13 is a standard that contains the guidelines and the requirements for the installation of a n:sprinkler-system.<br class=""><br class="">I'm concerned there is a better way to formulate my sentence because of these warnings. Is there some sentence construction best practices I'm missing?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">attempto mailing list<br class="">attempto@lists.ifi.uzh.ch<br class="">https://lists.ifi.uzh.ch/listinfo/attempto<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">---------------------<br class="">https://twitter.com/#!/ontologiae/<br class="">http://linuxfr.org/users/montaigne<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">attempto mailing list<br class="">attempto@lists.ifi.uzh.ch<br class="">https://lists.ifi.uzh.ch/listinfo/attempto<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>