<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Woodley (or anyone else who can help), </div><div><br></div><div>Ace is crashing unexpectedly with at least two sentences in a large regression test for ZHONG:</div><div>能不能借给我一枝笔？ (can-not-can lend me 1 CL pen?)<br></div><div>要不要借书？ (want-not-want borrow book?)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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>The same error does not happen, for example, for the sentence: </div><div><br></div><div>你吃不吃肉？ (you eat-not-eat mean?)</div><div><br></div><div>We repeatedly get the same error for these (and similar) sentences: </div><div><b>ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.</b></div><b>Aborted (core dumped)</b><div><br><div>=========================================================</div><div>$ ./ace -g zhong.dat <br>能不能借给我一枝笔？<br>ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.<br>Aborted (core dumped)<br></div><div><br></div><div>./ace -g zhong.dat <br><div>要不要借书？<br></div><div></div>ace: type.c:625: type_to_string: Assertion `ty->name[0]=='"'' failed.<br>Aborted (core dumped)<br></div><div>==========================================================</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_k9usf45f0" alt="Screenshot from 2020-05-06 11-28-01.png" width="495" height="268"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_k9usfdcv1" alt="Screenshot from 2020-05-06 11-30-49.png" width="495" height="276"><br></div></div><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>Is there anything we might be missing? We would much appreciate if you could help us solve this. </div><div><br></div><div>For testing, you might want to download the current (uncommitted) version of ZHONG: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p7lPA06sD2v6Xq0qG0TslGF0x6n5uIqV" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p7lPA06sD2v6Xq0qG0TslGF0x6n5uIqV</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Luis</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div> </div></div>