<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Luis,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wasn't quite sure which ace/config.tdl to use in the Zhong tree, as there are several, but I guessed that maybe cmn/zhs/ace/config.tdl was a good place to start, and was able to reproduce the errors you found.  A little bit of hunting showed that this is a result of STEM containing unconstrained strings, and it looks like the culprit is the v_aux_ell-lr rule.  That rule fails to constrain the mother's STEM.FIRST value, and as a result, subsequent orthographemic rules (in this case, the abua-olr rule) can't tell what string they should be operating on.  Possibly v_aux_ell-lr should pass up the daughter's STEM value?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope that helps,</div><div class="">Woodley</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 5, 2020, at 9:09 PM, Luis Morgado da Costa <<a href="mailto:luis.passos.morgado@gmail.com" class="">luis.passos.morgado@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Dear Woodley (or anyone else who can help), </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ace is crashing unexpectedly with at least two sentences in a large regression test for ZHONG:</div><div class="">能不能借给我一枝笔？  (can-not-can lend me 1 CL pen?)<br class=""></div><div class="">要不要借书？  (want-not-want borrow book?)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our suspicion is that the problem arises from the interaction of this V-not-V question form in Mandarin, and the fact that in these examples the verbs are auxiliaries. </div><div class="">The same error does not happen, for example, for the sentence: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">你吃不吃肉？ (you eat-not-eat mean?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We repeatedly get the same error for these (and similar) sentences: </div><div class=""><b class="">ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.</b></div><b class="">Aborted (core dumped)</b><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">=========================================================</div><div class="">$ ./ace -g zhong.dat <br class="">能不能借给我一枝笔？<br class="">ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.<br class="">Aborted (core dumped)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">./ace -g zhong.dat <br class=""><div class="">要不要借书？<br class=""></div><div class=""></div>ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.<br class="">Aborted (core dumped)<br class=""></div><div class="">==========================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This happens both in ACE 0.9.30 and 0.9.31; However, it does not happen with LKB FOS (we get parses for both sentences above, see below).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_k9usf45f0"><Screenshot from 2020-05-06 11-28-01.png></span><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_k9usfdcv1"><Screenshot from 2020-05-06 11-30-49.png></span><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">Is there anything we might be missing? We would much appreciate if you could help us solve this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For testing, you might want to download the current (uncommitted) version of ZHONG: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p7lPA06sD2v6Xq0qG0TslGF0x6n5uIqV" target="_blank" class="">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p7lPA06sD2v6Xq0qG0TslGF0x6n5uIqV</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Luis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div> </div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>