German is a verb second language, i.e., the position of the verb in the main clause is determined exclusively by the grammar and is insensitive to other factors.
in their simplest system, whose performance is only 2.5% worse than the performance of the best one, they condition on both syntactic categories and semantic relations (ψ) according to the formula: Although they test their system on German data, it is hard to compare their results to ours directly.