Moving to XML

Sentences

• Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
  • an English sentence.

    although it is nonsense, we can easily parse it and see that it is structurally correct

• Development state with join material and.
  • not an English sentence

    although there could be sensible parses in some grammars, we can easily see that in English grammar this is not structurally correct.

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