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Examples
a noun at a certain distance from a verb [tag="N.*"] [ ]{0,3} [tag="V.*"]
a noun and verb with exactly one token in between [tag="N.*"] [ ] [tag="V.*"]
a noun at a certain distance from a verb inside the same sentence [tag="N.*"] [ ]{0,3} [tag="V.*"] within
big dog or wolf ([lc="big"] [lc="dog"])|[lc="wolf"]
big dog or big wolf [lc="big"] [lc="dog|wolf"]


Frequent mistakes
mistake correction explanation
[lemma="children"] [lemma="child"] children is not a lemma
[word="Hello!"] [word="Hello"] [word="\!"] punctuation is a separate token and must be escaped
[word="Hello "] [word="Hello"] tokens cannot contain spaces
[tag="V.*"] [] [lc="cat"] within <s> [tag="V.*"] [] [lc="cat"] within <s/> a structure needs the "whole" option to work with within and containg