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Grasp Corpus tutorialA cool introduction to the Grasp CorpusJean-Paul Sansonnet — July 2003ã1. What is the Grasp Corpus?The Grasp Corpus was built in order to provide a support to the Grasp Semantic Analyzer [currently under constructionin our team] but it can be used for other purposes. The aim of the Grasp Corpus was to provide a full grammaticalcoverage rather than a full lexical coverage of English. Hence, this corpus was not collected from natural data but iscomposed of "constructed sentences" that is artificial sentences, like one can found in grammar books. However thesesentences are quite realistic of the utterances one can encounter in the process of human / human dialogues.Consequently, the Grasp Corpus cannot be considered as typical in terms of- lexical data : the statistical distribution of the words in the Grasp Corpus is not that of natural communicative interac −tion,- semantic data : the statistical distribution of the actions in the Grasp Corpus is not that of natural communicativeinteraction.On the contrary, the Grasp Corpus has been carefully constructed to cover the main grammatical rules of the Englishlanguage- 136 mains units (or main grammatical rules) are considered,- for each main rule, an average of 5 subcases is provided, which amounts to about 700 grammar rules,- for each main rule an average of 50 sentences featuring the rule are provided, which amounts to more than 7000sentences in the corpus.Indeed, as a sentence can ...