A single 〜たり with no partner

tari-unpairedon by default (info)Japanese

A Japanese 〜たり used once and followed by another clause, so its pair is missing

Example

Flagged

休日は本を読んだり、映画を見ます。

What chaff prints

1:8 「だり」が一つだけで、対になる「〜たり」がありません

Fixed

休日は本を読んだり、映画を見たりします。

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Add 〜たり to the second verb as well and close with する.

Why it matters

In Japanese, 〜たり lists actions in pairs (〜たり〜たりする). Used once and followed by another clause ("本を読んだり、映画を見ます"), the second half of the pair is missing. A single 〜たり closed by する (遅れたりする), which gives one example, is correct and not reported.

What it does not flag

Sentences with two or more 〜たり, and a single 〜たり closed by する (遅れたりする), are not reported. Nor is the たり of 一日たりとも, which does not list, nor anything quoted in 「」, nor a たり that follows no word, after an opening bracket or quotation mark (並立助詞(たり)が連続する), which names the particle instead of using it.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax tari-unpaired --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: tari-unpaired: off

Technical details

Layer: L3
Status: stable
Severity: info
Languages: ja
Suited to: blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Reads from the document: pos

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strict	warning
normal	info
relaxed	info

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in: technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
Turned off by the genre in: literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play

Genres

Message

"{word}" is used once, with no second 〜たり to pair with

Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/tari-unpaired.yaml