Classroom:Norwegian Grammar Checking

Norwegian Grammar Checking

This gadget is designed to provide grammaticality feedback for sentences of your choice.

Please click on

or on the following url:

In the window that comes up, write a sentence into the open mask, and push the button 'Analyze'.

If the string you write is grammatically wellformed, you will get the response:

          A wellformed Norwegian sentence

If the string is not grammatically wellformed, the system will inform you about this. There are two ways in which this can happen:

Error diagnosis

For instance, for the ungrammatical string (the '*' in front signals that it is ungrammatical)

          * Jeg liker du.

where "du" is used as an object, while this form can only be used as a subject, one gets the message:

      The word "du" is marked with the wrong case, try using "deg" instead.

Accompanying an error message, there is a small square with a number inside. By clicking on this square, one can get a new window showing a recommended version of the intended sentence, in the present case:

         Jeg liker deg.

To write a new sentence for feedback, return to the window prior to the latter window.

II. Ungrammaticality report

In cases where the grammar recognizes a string as ungrammatical, but no specific error message has been designed for the error type, the interface will simply report

          Ungrammatical in Norwegian.

You can in principle use sentences of any length, but for the purpose of getting rapid feedback and precise advice about what (if anything) is wrong, short sentences are recommended. However, they should be grammatically full sentences, and ended with punctuation. Moreover, the following constraints are currently imposed:

- Imperative verb forms are not accepted.

- Interjections (like "yes", "hi!", and so) are not accepted.

- The array of verbs and adjectives that can be used is virtually unlimited, but for nouns, we recommend that you for the time being stay within the following set:

mann, dame, jente, gutt, katt, ball, hus, fjell, mat, ....

If the lexicon of the parser does not contain a certain word used in the input string, the response will inform you that this is so.

Usage of the grammar checker

For use of the system in a language learning context, see A Norwegian Grammar Sparrer.

Phenomena for which you can get feedback, and possible feedback messages

For an overview of phenomena for which you can get articulated error feedback, please go to the following page: Grammar sparring phenomena

For an overview of feedback messages available, go to Feedback messages.

--Lars Hellan 21:14, 11 September 2011 (UTC)