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4.25 The Command ma-file (malaga)

The command ma-file can be used to analyse files that contain word lists. A word list consists of a number of word forms, each word form on a line on its own. There may be empty lines in a word list. The following example is a word list called word-list:

     table
     men's
     blue
     handicap

To analyse this word list, enter:

     ma-file word-list result

This will produce a file result that contains the analysis results. If the second argument is missing, the result will be written to a file whose name ends in .out; for word-list, its name will be word-list.out:

     1: "table": [class: noun, ...]
     2: "men's": [class: noun, ...]
     3: "blue": [class: noun, ...]
     3: "blue": [class: adjective, ...]
     3: "blue": [class: name, ...]
     4: "handicap: unknown

The number at the line start represents the line number of the analysed original word form. The output format can be changed by using the options result-format and unknown-format.

If a runtime error occurs during the analysis of a word, the line will be printed in the format given by the option error-format.

After the analysis, some statistics will be printed: