GOODY PRODUCTS Inc. cut its quarterly dividend to five cents a share from 11.5 cents a share . 1 POS tagging: (Known difficult, JJ or NN) - (NP - (JJ GOODY) - (NNS PRODUCTS) - (NN Inc.)) + (NP-SBJ + (NNP GOODY) + (NNP PRODUCTS) + (NNP Inc.)) dbp: .1 minip: 0 (attachment - cents from cents) Score: 53 Height: 5 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 In investing on the basis of future transactions , a role often performed by merchant banks , trading companies can cut through the logjam that small-company owners often face with their local commercial banks . 1 tree structure error - extra NP: (PP (IN of) (NP - (NP (JJ future) - (NNS transactions)) + (NNS transactions))...) (, ,) (comma & following NP related to wrong place, structure broken from here) 2 POS tagging errors: 1) trading: -VBG +NN (Known difficult NN or VBG) (NP (NN merchant) - (NNS banks)))))))))))) - (, ,) - (NP - (VBG trading) + (NNS banks)))))) + (, ,)) + (NP-SBJ + (NN trading) (NNS companies)) (VP 2) small-company: -JJ +NN (Known difficult, JJ or NN) (S - (NP - (JJ small-company) + (NP-SBJ + (NN small-company) (NNS owners)) dbp: 0 minip: 0 (POS tagging triggered - future became a N => parsed as "investing on the basis of future") Score: 53 Height: 9 # of top-level constituents: 4 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 The Fed cut the key federal funds interest rate by about 0.25 percentage point to 8.75 % after the Oct. 13 stock market plunge , but has shown no sign of movement since . 1) Known difficult case POSTGPTB4.1 (IN or RB) looks POS-induced local structural change due to minor tag (NP - (IN about) - (CD 0.25) + (QP + (RB about) + (CD 0.25)) (NN percentage) (NN point))) (IN of) 2) local POS tagging, Known difficult case POSTGPTB4.1 (IN or RB) (NP (NN movement)))) (ADVP - (RB since))))) + (IN since))))) (. .)) dbp: 0 minip: 0 "cut (rate by point)" Score: 53 Height: 7 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 In the hands of a zealot like Lenny Bruce , this double-edged blade could cut both the self and the audience to ribbons . dbp: 1 minip: 0 "cut (audience to ribbons)" Score: 53 Height: 7 # of top-level constituents: 5 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 Congress previously cut six airports this year . dbp: 1 minip: 1 Score: 53 Height: 3 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 As a part of overall efforts to reduce spending , Congress cut by $ 30 million the Bush administration 's request for antitrust enforcement for fiscal 1990 , which began Oct. 1 . 1) Structural: extra NP recognized (PP (IN of) (NP - (NP (JJ overall) - (NNS efforts)) + (NNS efforts) 2) Structural: inner NP unrecognized, could be ambig.-related (NP + (NP (JJ fiscal) - (CD 1990))) + (CD 1990)) dbp: 0 minip: 1 Score: 53 Height: 11 # of top-level constituents: 5 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 Magna recently cut its quarterly dividend in half and the company 's Class A shares are wallowing far below their 52-week high of 16.125 Canadian dollars -LRB- US$ 13.73 -RRB- . POS leaves tagging: known DT vs NN (NP - (NN half))))) + (DT half))))) dbp: .1 minip: 1 Score: 53 Height: 10 # of top-level constituents: 4 Top-level verb: cut ambiguity: 53 Also , retail sales grew 0.5 % last month . dbp: 1 minip: 0 (grew (0.5% (last month)) Score: 51 Height: 3 # of top-level constituents: 5 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 And the nose on Mr. Courter 's face grows . dbp: 1 minip: 1 Score: 51 Height: 5 # of top-level constituents: 4 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 Per-capita personal income in the U.S. grew faster than inflation last year , according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis . dbp: 1 minip: 0 (last mistaken for a verb, could be the cause for wrong ph.attachment). Score: 51 Height: 7 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 The gap between winners and laggards will grow . dbp: 1 minip: 1 Score: 51 Height: 4 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 Producer prices for intermediate goods grew 0.4 % in September , after dropping for three consecutive months . 1 POS tagging: (Known difficult, JJ or NN) (NP - (JJ Producer) + (NN Producer) (NNS prices)) dbp: .1 minip: 0 (dropping (for three) (consecutive months)) Score: 51 Height: 7 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 The company grew modestly until 1986 , when a majority position in Hooker Corp. was acquired by Australian developer George Herscu , currently Hooker 's chairman . dbp: 1 minip: 0 (grew (modestly (until ...))) Score: 51 Height: 12 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 Sales grew almost 7 % to $ 279.1 million from $ 261.3 million . dbp: 1 minip: 0 (million (from million)) Score: 51 Height: 5 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51 Sales of passenger cars grew 22 % from a year earlier to 361,376 units . 1 POS tagging: (Known difficult, JJR or RBR) (NP (DT a) (NN year)) - (RBR earlier))) - (PP + (JJR earlier))) dbp: .1 minip: 0 (earlier (to units)) Score: 51 Height: 5 # of top-level constituents: 3 Top-level verb: grow ambiguity: 51