grammar.doctest

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Grammar Parsing
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Grammars can be parsed from strings:

    >>> from nltk import CFG
    >>> grammar = CFG.fromstring("""
    ... S -> NP VP
    ... PP -> P NP
    ... NP -> Det N | NP PP
    ... VP -> V NP | VP PP
    ... Det -> 'a' | 'the'
    ... N -> 'dog' | 'cat'
    ... V -> 'chased' | 'sat'
    ... P -> 'on' | 'in'
    ... """)
    >>> grammar
    <Grammar with 14 productions>
    >>> grammar.start()
    S
    >>> grammar.productions()
    [S -> NP VP, PP -> P NP, NP -> Det N, NP -> NP PP, VP -> V NP, VP -> VP PP,
    Det -> 'a', Det -> 'the', N -> 'dog', N -> 'cat', V -> 'chased', V -> 'sat',
    P -> 'on', P -> 'in']

Probabilistic CFGs:

    >>> from nltk import PCFG
    >>> toy_pcfg1 = PCFG.fromstring("""
    ... S -> NP VP [1.0]
    ... NP -> Det N [0.5] | NP PP [0.25] | 'John' [0.1] | 'I' [0.15]
    ... Det -> 'the' [0.8] | 'my' [0.2]
    ... N -> 'man' [0.5] | 'telescope' [0.5]
    ... VP -> VP PP [0.1] | V NP [0.7] | V [0.2]
    ... V -> 'ate' [0.35] | 'saw' [0.65]
    ... PP -> P NP [1.0]
    ... P -> 'with' [0.61] | 'under' [0.39]
    ... """)

Chomsky Normal Form grammar (Test for bug 474)

    >>> g = CFG.fromstring("VP^<TOP> -> VBP NP^<VP-TOP>")
    >>> g.productions()[0].lhs()
    VP^<TOP>

Grammars can contain both empty strings and empty productions:

    >>> from nltk.grammar import CFG
    >>> from nltk.parse.generate import generate
    >>> grammar = CFG.fromstring("""
    ... S -> A B
    ... A -> 'a'
    ... # An empty string:
    ... B -> 'b' | ''
    ... """)
    >>> list(generate(grammar))
    [['a', 'b'], ['a', '']]
    >>> grammar = CFG.fromstring("""
    ... S -> A B
    ... A -> 'a'
    ... # An empty production:
    ... B -> 'b' |
    ... """)
    >>> list(generate(grammar))
    [['a', 'b'], ['a']]