Removed SpanWithIdQuery.

Change-Id: I2a574ed3a08ec5271e6fb6c5faa9707cff75c5fb
(cherry picked from commit 9d0f76aa96e61f65d24985f45f0749ea021a3641)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2cccd90..3deb73e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@
 # /src/main/resources/
 /src/main/resources/server.properties
 /src/main/resources/korap.conf
+/bin
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanAttributeQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanAttributeQuery.java
index 2bef713..a4194b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanAttributeQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanAttributeQuery.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class SpanAttributeQuery extends SpanWithIdQuery {
+public class SpanAttributeQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
 
     boolean negation;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanClassQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanClassQuery.java
index aa9fc7a..8de7faf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanClassQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanClassQuery.java
@@ -1,60 +1,35 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-
-import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ToStringUtils;
 
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.ClassSpans;
 
-
 /**
  * Marks spans with a special class payload.
  */
-public class SpanClassQuery extends SpanQuery {
-    public String field;
-    protected byte number;
-    protected SpanQuery operand;
-
-
-    public SpanClassQuery (SpanQuery operand, byte number) {
-        this.field = operand.getField();
-        this.operand = operand;
-        this.number = number;
-    };
+public class SpanClassQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
+    protected byte number = 1;
 
 
     public SpanClassQuery (SpanQuery operand) {
-        this.field = operand.getField();
-        this.operand = operand;
-        this.number = (byte) 1;
+        super(operand, false);
     };
 
 
-    public byte number () {
-        return this.number;
-    };
-
-
-    @Override
-    public String getField () {
-        return field;
-    }
-
-
-    @Override
-    public void extractTerms (Set<Term> terms) {
-        this.operand.extractTerms(terms);
+    public SpanClassQuery (SpanQuery operand, byte number) {
+        super(operand, false);
+        this.number = number;
     };
 
 
@@ -63,7 +38,7 @@
         StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer("{");
         short classNr = (short) this.number;
         buffer.append(classNr & 0xFF).append(": ");
-        buffer.append(this.operand.toString()).append('}');
+        buffer.append(this.firstClause.toString()).append('}');
         buffer.append(ToStringUtils.boost(getBoost()));
         return buffer.toString();
     };
@@ -72,7 +47,7 @@
     @Override
     public Spans getSpans (final AtomicReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs,
             Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts) throws IOException {
-        return (Spans) new ClassSpans(this.operand, context, acceptDocs,
+        return (Spans) new ClassSpans(this.firstClause, context, acceptDocs,
                 termContexts, number);
     };
 
@@ -80,12 +55,12 @@
     @Override
     public Query rewrite (IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
         SpanClassQuery clone = null;
-        SpanQuery query = (SpanQuery) this.operand.rewrite(reader);
+        SpanQuery query = (SpanQuery) this.firstClause.rewrite(reader);
 
-        if (query != this.operand) {
+        if (query != this.firstClause) {
             if (clone == null)
                 clone = this.clone();
-            clone.operand = query;
+            clone.firstClause = query;
         };
 
         if (clone != null)
@@ -98,7 +73,7 @@
     @Override
     public SpanClassQuery clone () {
         SpanClassQuery spanClassQuery = new SpanClassQuery(
-                (SpanQuery) this.operand.clone(), this.number);
+                (SpanQuery) this.firstClause.clone(), this.number);
         spanClassQuery.setBoost(getBoost());
         return spanClassQuery;
     };
@@ -114,7 +89,7 @@
 
         final SpanClassQuery spanClassQuery = (SpanClassQuery) o;
 
-        if (!this.operand.equals(spanClassQuery.operand))
+        if (!this.firstClause.equals(spanClassQuery.firstClause))
             return false;
 
         if (this.number != spanClassQuery.number)
@@ -128,10 +103,20 @@
     @Override
     public int hashCode () {
         int result = 1;
-        result = operand.hashCode();
+        result = firstClause.hashCode();
         result += (int) number;
         result ^= (result << 15) | (result >>> 18);
         result += Float.floatToRawIntBits(getBoost());
         return result;
+    }
+
+
+    public byte getNumber () {
+        return number;
+    }
+
+
+    public void setNumber (byte number) {
+        this.number = number;
     };
 };
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanElementQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanElementQuery.java
index 9aa684a..6c2981b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanElementQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanElementQuery.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
  * @author diewald
  * @author margaretha
  */
-public class SpanElementQuery extends SpanWithIdQuery {
+public class SpanElementQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
     private static Term elementTerm;
     private String elementStr;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanFocusQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanFocusQuery.java
index 30cc536..305e42c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanFocusQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanFocusQuery.java
@@ -1,65 +1,81 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-
-import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ToStringUtils;
 
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.FocusSpans;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanClassQuery;
 
 /**
  * Modify the span of a match to the boundaries of a certain class.
  * 
  * In case multiple classes are found with the very same number, the
- * span
- * is maximized to start on the first occurrence from the left and end
- * on
- * the last occurrence on the right.
+ * span is
+ * maximized to start on the first occurrence from the left and end on
+ * the last
+ * occurrence on the right.
  * 
- * In case the class to modify on is not found in the subquery,
- * the match is ignored.
+ * In case the class to modify on is not found in the subquery, the
+ * match is
+ * ignored.
  * 
  * @author diewald
  * 
  * @see FocusSpans
  */
-public class SpanFocusQuery extends SpanClassQuery {
+public class SpanFocusQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
+
+    private List<Byte> classNumbers = new ArrayList<Byte>();
+    private boolean isSorted = true;
+
 
     /**
      * Construct a new SpanFocusQuery.
      * 
-     * @param operand
+     * @param firstClause
      *            The nested {@link SpanQuery}, that contains one or
-     *            more classed spans.
+     *            more
+     *            classed spans.
      * @param number
      *            The class number to focus on.
      */
-    public SpanFocusQuery (SpanQuery operand, byte number) {
-        super(operand, number);
+    public SpanFocusQuery (SpanQuery sq, byte classNumber) {
+        super(sq, true);
+        classNumbers.add(classNumber);
+    };
+
+
+    public SpanFocusQuery (SpanQuery sq, List<Byte> classNumbers) {
+        super(sq, true);
+        this.classNumbers = classNumbers;
+        isSorted = false;
     };
 
 
     /**
-     * Construct a new SpanFocusQuery.
-     * The class to focus on defaults to <tt>1</tt>.
+     * Construct a new SpanFocusQuery. The class to focus on defaults
+     * to
+     * <tt>1</tt>.
      * 
-     * @param operand
+     * @param firstClause
      *            The nested {@link SpanQuery}, that contains one or
-     *            more classed spans.
+     *            more
+     *            classed spans.
      */
-    public SpanFocusQuery (SpanQuery operand) {
-        this(operand, (byte) 1);
+    public SpanFocusQuery (SpanQuery sq) {
+        super(sq, true);
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 1);
     };
 
 
@@ -67,9 +83,20 @@
     public String toString (String field) {
         StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
         buffer.append("focus(");
-        short classNr = (short) this.number;
-        buffer.append(classNr & 0xFF).append(": ");
-        buffer.append(this.operand.toString());
+        if (classNumbers.size() > 1) {
+            buffer.append("[");
+            for (int i = 0; i < classNumbers.size(); i++) {
+                buffer.append((short) classNumbers.get(i) & 0xFF);
+                if (i != classNumbers.size() - 1) {
+                    buffer.append(",");
+                }
+            }
+            buffer.append("]");
+        }
+        else {
+            buffer.append((short) classNumbers.get(0) & 0xFF).append(": ");
+        }
+        buffer.append(this.firstClause.toString());
         buffer.append(')');
         buffer.append(ToStringUtils.boost(getBoost()));
         return buffer.toString();
@@ -79,20 +106,19 @@
     @Override
     public Spans getSpans (final AtomicReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs,
             Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts) throws IOException {
-        return (Spans) new FocusSpans(this.operand, context, acceptDocs,
-                termContexts, number);
+        return new FocusSpans(this, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
     };
 
 
     @Override
     public Query rewrite (IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
         SpanFocusQuery clone = null;
-        SpanQuery query = (SpanQuery) this.operand.rewrite(reader);
+        SpanQuery query = (SpanQuery) this.firstClause.rewrite(reader);
 
-        if (query != this.operand) {
+        if (query != this.firstClause) {
             if (clone == null)
                 clone = this.clone();
-            clone.operand = query;
+            clone.firstClause = query;
         };
 
         if (clone != null)
@@ -105,7 +131,7 @@
     @Override
     public SpanFocusQuery clone () {
         SpanFocusQuery spanFocusQuery = new SpanFocusQuery(
-                (SpanQuery) this.operand.clone(), this.number);
+                (SpanQuery) this.firstClause.clone(), this.getClassNumbers());
         spanFocusQuery.setBoost(getBoost());
         return spanFocusQuery;
     };
@@ -120,9 +146,9 @@
 
         final SpanFocusQuery spanFocusQuery = (SpanFocusQuery) o;
 
-        if (!this.operand.equals(spanFocusQuery.operand))
+        if (!this.firstClause.equals(spanFocusQuery.firstClause))
             return false;
-        if (this.number != spanFocusQuery.number)
+        if (this.getClassNumbers() != spanFocusQuery.getClassNumbers())
             return false;
 
         // Probably not necessary
@@ -132,9 +158,31 @@
 
     @Override
     public int hashCode () {
-        int result = operand.hashCode();
-        result = 31 * result + number;
+        int result = firstClause.hashCode();
+        for (byte number : classNumbers)
+            result = 31 * result + number;
         result += Float.floatToRawIntBits(getBoost());
         return result;
-    };
+    }
+
+
+    public List<Byte> getClassNumbers () {
+        return classNumbers;
+    }
+
+
+    public void setClassNumbers (List<Byte> classNumbers) {
+        this.classNumbers = classNumbers;
+    }
+
+
+    public boolean isSorted () {
+        return isSorted;
+    }
+
+
+    public void setSorted (boolean isSorted) {
+        this.isSorted = isSorted;
+    }
+
 };
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanRelationQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanRelationQuery.java
index f19a1dc..cf1c154 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanRelationQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanRelationQuery.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class SpanRelationQuery extends SpanWithIdQuery {
+public class SpanRelationQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
 
     private String type;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanSegmentQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanSegmentQuery.java
index 512adc0..bb69d4c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanSegmentQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanSegmentQuery.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
 
     public SpanSegmentQuery (SpanRelationQuery firstClause,
-                             SpanWithIdQuery secondClause,
+                             SimpleSpanQuery secondClause,
                              boolean collectPayloads) {
         super(firstClause, secondClause, true);
         isRelation = true;
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanTermWithIdQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanTermWithIdQuery.java
index 84e30b2..87de370 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanTermWithIdQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanTermWithIdQuery.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.SpansWithId;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.TermSpansWithId;
 
 /**
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class SpanTermWithIdQuery extends SpanWithIdQuery {
+public class SpanTermWithIdQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
 
     /**
      * Constructs a SpanTermWithIdQuery for the given term.
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithAttributeQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithAttributeQuery.java
index 12d6876..2ea519a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithAttributeQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithAttributeQuery.java
@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.ElementSpans;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.RelationSpans;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.SimpleSpans;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.SpansWithAttribute;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans.TermSpansWithId;
 
 /**
  * Enumeration of spans (e.g. element or relation spans) having some
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  */
-public class SpanWithAttributeQuery extends SpanWithIdQuery {
+public class SpanWithAttributeQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
 
     public boolean isMultipleAttributes;
     private String type;
@@ -91,7 +89,7 @@
      *            <code>true</code> if payloads are to be collected,
      *            otherwise <code>false</code>.
      */
-    public SpanWithAttributeQuery (SpanWithIdQuery firstClause,
+    public SpanWithAttributeQuery (SimpleSpanQuery firstClause,
                                    SpanAttributeQuery secondClause,
                                    boolean collectPayloads) {
         super(firstClause, secondClause, collectPayloads);
@@ -109,7 +107,7 @@
      *            <code>true</code> if payloads are to be collected,
      *            otherwise <code>false</code>.
      */
-    public SpanWithAttributeQuery (SpanWithIdQuery firstClause,
+    public SpanWithAttributeQuery (SimpleSpanQuery firstClause,
                                    List<SpanQuery> secondClauses,
                                    boolean collectPayloads) {
         super(firstClause, secondClauses, collectPayloads);
@@ -137,7 +135,7 @@
         if (SpanElementQuery.class.isInstance(firstClause)) {
             type = "spanElementWithAttribute";
         }
-        else if (SpanRelationQuery.class.isInstance(firstClause)) {
+        else if (SpanFocusQuery.class.isInstance(firstClause)) {
             type = "spanRelationWithAttribute";
         }
         else if (SpanTermWithIdQuery.class.isInstance(firstClause)) {
@@ -147,16 +145,16 @@
 
 
     @Override
-    public SimpleSpanQuery clone () {
+    public SpanWithAttributeQuery clone () {
         if (secondClause != null) {
             if (isMultipleAttributes) {
                 return new SpanWithAttributeQuery(
-                        (SpanWithIdQuery) firstClause.clone(),
+                        (SimpleSpanQuery) firstClause.clone(),
                         cloneClauseList(), collectPayloads);
             }
             else {
                 return new SpanWithAttributeQuery(
-                        (SpanWithIdQuery) firstClause.clone(),
+                        (SimpleSpanQuery) firstClause.clone(),
                         (SpanAttributeQuery) secondClause.clone(),
                         collectPayloads);
             }
@@ -195,25 +193,10 @@
                     termContexts);
         }
 
-        Spans spans = this.getFirstClause().getSpans(context, acceptDocs,
+        SimpleSpans spans = (SimpleSpans) this.getFirstClause().getSpans(
+                context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
+        return new SpansWithAttribute(this, spans, context, acceptDocs,
                 termContexts);
-
-        if (type.equals("spanElementWithAttribute")) {
-            return new SpansWithAttribute(this, (ElementSpans) spans, context,
-                    acceptDocs, termContexts);
-        }
-        else if (type.equals("spanRelationWithAttribute")) {
-            return new SpansWithAttribute(this, (RelationSpans) spans, context,
-                    acceptDocs, termContexts);
-        }
-        else if (type.equals("spanTermWithAttribute")) {
-            return new SpansWithAttribute(this, (TermSpansWithId) spans,
-                    context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
-        }
-        else {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Span query type: " + type
-                    + "is unknown.");
-        }
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithIdQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithIdQuery.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 3545808..0000000
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/SpanWithIdQuery.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
-
-/**
- * Base query for span queries whose resulting spans requires an id,
- * for
- * instance {@link SpanElementQuery} and {@link SpanRelationQuery}.
- * 
- * @author margaretha
- * 
- */
-public abstract class SpanWithIdQuery extends SimpleSpanQuery {
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs SpanWithIdQuery based on the given {@link SpanQuery}
-     * and the
-     * collectPayloads flag, for example, {@link SpanElementQuery}.
-     * 
-     * @param firstClause
-     *            a SpanQuery
-     * @param collectPayloads
-     *            a boolean flag representing the value
-     *            <code>true</code> if payloads are to be collected,
-     *            otherwise
-     *            <code>false</code>.
-     */
-    public SpanWithIdQuery (SpanQuery firstClause, boolean collectPayloads) {
-        super(firstClause, collectPayloads);
-    }
-
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs SpanWithIdQuery based on two span queries and the
-     * collectPayloads flag, for instance, query a relation having a
-     * specific
-     * attribute.
-     * 
-     * @param firstClause
-     *            a SpanQuery
-     * @param secondClause
-     *            a SpanQuery
-     * @param collectPayloads
-     *            a boolean flag representing the value
-     *            <code>true</code> if payloads are to be collected,
-     *            otherwise
-     *            <code>false</code>.
-     */
-    public SpanWithIdQuery (SpanQuery firstClause, SpanQuery secondClause,
-                            boolean collectPayloads) {
-        super(firstClause, secondClause, collectPayloads);
-    }
-
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs SpanWithIdQuery based on a span query and a list of
-     * span
-     * queries, for instance, query an element having two specific
-     * attributes.
-     * 
-     * @param firstClause
-     *            a SpanQuery
-     * @param secondClauses
-     *            a list of SpanQuery
-     * @param collectPayloads
-     *            a boolean flag representing the value
-     *            <code>true</code> if payloads are to be collected,
-     *            otherwise
-     *            <code>false</code>.
-     */
-    public SpanWithIdQuery (SpanQuery firstClause,
-                            List<SpanQuery> secondClauses,
-                            boolean collectPayloads) {
-        super(firstClause, secondClauses, collectPayloads);
-    }
-
-
-    public SpanWithIdQuery (List<SpanQuery> clauses, boolean collectPayloads) {
-        super(clauses, collectPayloads);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/AttributeSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/AttributeSpans.java
index 2816c96..cf70cb9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/AttributeSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/AttributeSpans.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class AttributeSpans extends SpansWithId {
+public class AttributeSpans extends SimpleSpans {
 
     private List<CandidateAttributeSpan> candidateList;
     private int currentDoc, currentPosition;
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@
                            Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts)
             throws IOException {
         super(spanAttributeQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
+        this.hasSpanId = true;
+
         candidateList = new ArrayList<>();
         hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
         if (hasMoreSpans) {
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@
             return new CandidateAttributeSpan(firstSpans, spanId, end);
         }
         else if (payload.get(0).length == 10) {
+            start = wrapper.getInt(0);
             end = wrapper.getInt(4);
             spanId = wrapper.getShort(8);
             return new CandidateAttributeSpan(firstSpans, spanId, start, end);
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/CandidateSpan.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/CandidateSpan.java
index c78eee4..8198195 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/CandidateSpan.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/CandidateSpan.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 public class CandidateSpan implements Comparable<CandidateSpan>, Cloneable {
     protected int doc, start, end;
     private long cost;
-    private Collection<byte[]> payloads = new ArrayList<>();
+    private Collection<byte[]> payloads;
     private int position;
     private CandidateSpan childSpan; // used for example for multiple distance
                                      // with unordered constraint
@@ -41,8 +41,18 @@
         this.start = span.start();
         this.end = span.end();
         this.cost = span.cost();
-        if (span.isPayloadAvailable())
+
+        this.payloads = new ArrayList<>();
+        if (span.isPayloadAvailable()) {
             setPayloads(span.getPayload());
+        }
+        if (span instanceof SimpleSpans) {
+            SimpleSpans temp = (SimpleSpans) span;
+            this.spanId = temp.getSpanId();
+        }
+        else if (span instanceof ClassSpans) {
+            this.spanId = ((ClassSpans) span).getNumber();
+        }
     }
 
 
@@ -180,6 +190,7 @@
      */
     public void setPayloads (Collection<byte[]> payloads) {
 
+        this.payloads = new ArrayList<>();
         for (byte[] b : payloads) {
             if (b == null)
                 this.payloads.add(null);
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ClassSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ClassSpans.java
index 35fe53f..4e97dbc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ClassSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ClassSpans.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
@@ -84,6 +85,16 @@
     };
 
 
+    public byte getNumber () {
+        return number;
+    }
+
+
+    public void setNumber (byte number) {
+        this.number = number;
+    }
+
+
     @Override
     public int doc () {
         return spans.doc();
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ElementSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ElementSpans.java
index 21212c7..d2ceffe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ElementSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/ElementSpans.java
@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.TermSpans;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
-
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@
  * @author margaretha
  * @author diewald
  */
-public class ElementSpans extends SpansWithId {
+public class ElementSpans extends SimpleSpans {
     private TermSpans termSpans;
     private boolean lazyLoaded = false;
 
@@ -58,6 +57,7 @@
         super(spanElementQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
         termSpans = (TermSpans) this.firstSpans;
         hasMoreSpans = true;
+        // hasSpanId = true;
     };
 
 
@@ -120,7 +120,13 @@
             this.matchEndPosition = bb.getInt(8);
 
             // Copy element id
-            this.setSpanId(this.hasSpanId ? bb.getShort(12) : (short) -1);
+            if (length >= 14) {
+                this.setSpanId(bb.getShort(12));
+                this.hasSpanId = true;
+            }
+            else {
+                this.setSpanId((short) -1);
+            }
 
             // Copy the start and end character offsets
             byte[] b = new byte[8];
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/FocusSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/FocusSpans.java
index eabb8c0..2da1558 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/FocusSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/FocusSpans.java
@@ -1,66 +1,69 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans;
 
-import static de.ids_mannheim.korap.util.KrillByte.*;
+import static de.ids_mannheim.korap.util.KrillByte.byte2int;
 
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.ArrayUtil;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.*;
-
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanFocusQuery;
+
 
 /**
- * Spans, that can focus on the span boundaries of classed subqueries.
+ * originalSpans, that can focus on the span boundaries of classed
+ * subqueries.
  * The boundaries of the classed subquery may exceed the boundaries of
  * the
  * nested query.
  * 
  * In case multiple classes are found with the very same number, the
- * span
- * is maximized to start on the first occurrence from the left and end
- * on
- * the last occurrence on the right.
+ * span is
+ * maximized to start on the first occurrence from the left and end on
+ * the last
+ * occurrence on the right.
  * 
- * In case the class to focus on is not found in the payloads,
- * the match is ignored.
+ * In case the class to focus on is not found in the payloads, the
+ * match is
+ * ignored.
  * 
  * <strong>Warning</strong>: Payloads other than class payloads won't
- * bubble up currently. That behaviour may change in the future
+ * bubble up
+ * currently. That behaviour may change in the futures
  * 
  * @author diewald
  */
 
-public class FocusSpans extends Spans {
-    private List<byte[]> wrappedPayload;
-    private Collection<byte[]> payload;
-    private final Spans spans;
-    private byte number;
-
-    private SpanQuery wrapQuery;
+public class FocusSpans extends SimpleSpans {
+    private List<Byte> classNumbers;
+    private SpanQuery query;
     private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FocusSpans.class);
 
     // This advices the java compiler to ignore all loggings
     public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
 
-    private int start = -1, end;
-    private int tempStart = 0, tempEnd = 0;
+    // private SimpleSpans originalSpans;
+    private boolean isSorted;
+    private List<CandidateSpan> candidateSpans;
+    private int windowSize = 10;
+    private int currentDoc;
+    private byte number;
 
 
     /**
      * Construct a FocusSpan for the given {@link SpanQuery}.
      * 
-     * @param wrapQuery
+     * @param query
      *            A {@link SpanQuery}.
      * @param context
      *            The {@link AtomicReaderContext}.
@@ -73,139 +76,141 @@
      *            The class number to focus on.
      * @throws IOException
      */
-    public FocusSpans (SpanQuery wrapQuery, AtomicReaderContext context,
-                       Bits acceptDocs, Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts,
-                       byte number) throws IOException {
-        this.spans = wrapQuery.getSpans(context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
-        this.number = number;
-        this.wrapQuery = wrapQuery;
-        this.wrappedPayload = new ArrayList<byte[]>(6);
-    };
+    public FocusSpans (SpanFocusQuery query, AtomicReaderContext context,
+                       Bits acceptDocs, Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts)
+            throws IOException {
+        super(query, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
+        if (query.getClassNumbers() == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "At least one class number must be specified.");
+        }
+        classNumbers = query.getClassNumbers();
+        isSorted = query.isSorted();
+        candidateSpans = new ArrayList<CandidateSpan>();
+        hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
+        currentDoc = firstSpans.doc();
 
-
-    @Override
-    public Collection<byte[]> getPayload () throws IOException {
-        return wrappedPayload;
-    };
-
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isPayloadAvailable () {
-        return wrappedPayload.isEmpty() == false;
-    };
-
-
-    @Override
-    public int doc () {
-        return spans.doc();
-    };
-
-
-    @Override
-    public int start () {
-        return start;
-    };
-
-
-    @Override
-    public int end () {
-        return end;
-    };
+        // matchPayload = new ArrayList<byte[]>(6);
+        this.query = query;
+        hasSpanId = true;
+    }
 
 
     @Override
     public boolean next () throws IOException {
-        if (DEBUG)
-            log.trace("Forward next match in {}", this.doc());
+        matchPayload.clear();
+        CandidateSpan cs;
+        while (hasMoreSpans || candidateSpans.size() > 0) {
+            if (isSorted) {
 
-        // Next span
-        while (spans.next()) {
-            if (DEBUG)
-                log.trace("Forward next inner span");
+                if (firstSpans.isPayloadAvailable()
+                        && updateSpanPositions(cs = new CandidateSpan(
+                                firstSpans))) {
+                    setMatch(cs);
+                    hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
+                    return true;
+                }
+                hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
+            }
+            else if (candidateSpans.isEmpty()) {
+                currentDoc = firstSpans.doc();
+                collectCandidates();
+                Collections.sort(candidateSpans);
+            }
+            else {
+                setMatch(candidateSpans.get(0));
+                candidateSpans.remove(0);
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
 
-            // No classes stored
-            wrappedPayload.clear();
-
-            start = -1;
-            if (spans.isPayloadAvailable()) {
-                end = 0;
-
-                // Iterate over all payloads and find the maximum span per class
-                for (byte[] payload : spans.getPayload()) {
-
-                    // No class payload - ignore
-                    // this may be problematic for other calculated payloads!
-                    if (payload.length != 9) {
-                        if (DEBUG)
-                            log.trace("Ignore old payload {}", payload);
-                        continue;
-                    };
-
-                    // Found class payload of structure <i>start<i>end<b>class
-                    // and classes are matches!
-                    if (payload[8] == this.number) {
-                        tempStart = byte2int(payload, 0);
-                        tempEnd = byte2int(payload, 4);
-
-                        if (DEBUG) {
-                            log.trace("Found matching class {}-{}", tempStart,
-                                    tempEnd);
-                        };
-
-                        // Set start position 
-                        if (start == -1 || tempStart < start)
-                            start = tempStart;
-
-                        // Set end position
-                        if (tempEnd > end)
-                            end = tempEnd;
-                    };
-
-                    // Definately keep class information
-                    // Even if it is already used for shrinking
-                    wrappedPayload.add(payload);
-                };
-            };
-
-            // Class not found
-            if (start == -1)
-                continue;
-
-            if (DEBUG) {
-                log.trace("Start to focus on class {} from {} to {}", number,
-                        start, end);
-            };
-            return true;
-        };
-
-        // No more spans
-        this.wrappedPayload.clear();
         return false;
-    };
+    }
+
+
+    private void collectCandidates () throws IOException {
+        CandidateSpan cs = null;
+        while (hasMoreSpans && candidateSpans.size() < windowSize
+                && firstSpans.doc() == currentDoc) {
+
+            if (firstSpans.isPayloadAvailable()
+                    && updateSpanPositions(cs = new CandidateSpan(firstSpans))) {
+                candidateSpans.add(cs);
+            }
+            hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    private void setMatch (CandidateSpan cs) {
+        matchStartPosition = cs.getStart();
+        matchEndPosition = cs.getEnd();
+        matchDocNumber = cs.getDoc();
+        matchPayload.addAll(cs.getPayloads());
+        setSpanId(cs.getSpanId());
+    }
+
+
+    private boolean updateSpanPositions (CandidateSpan candidateSpan)
+            throws IOException {
+        int minPos = 0, maxPos = 0;
+        int classStart, classEnd;
+        boolean isStart = true;
+        boolean isClassFound = false;
+
+        candidateSpan.getPayloads().clear();
+
+        // Iterate over all payloads and find the maximum span per class
+        for (byte[] payload : firstSpans.getPayload()) {
+            // No class payload - ignore
+            // this may be problematic for other calculated payloads!
+            if (payload.length == 9) {
+                if (classNumbers.contains(payload[8])) {
+                    isClassFound = true;
+                    classStart = byte2int(payload, 0);
+                    classEnd = byte2int(payload, 4);
+
+                    if (isStart || classStart < minPos) {
+                        minPos = classStart;
+                        isStart = false;
+                    }
+                    if (classEnd > maxPos) {
+                        maxPos = classEnd;
+                    }
+                }
+                candidateSpan.getPayloads().add(payload.clone());
+            }
+
+        }
+
+        if (isClassFound) {
+            candidateSpan.start = minPos;
+            candidateSpan.end = maxPos;
+        }
+
+        return isClassFound;
+    }
 
 
     // Todo: Check for this on document boundaries!
     @Override
     public boolean skipTo (int target) throws IOException {
-        if (DEBUG)
-            log.trace("Skip MatchSpans {} -> {}", this.doc(), target);
-
-        if (this.doc() < target && spans.skipTo(target)) {
-
-        };
+        if (this.doc() < target && firstSpans.skipTo(target)) {
+            return next();
+        }
         return false;
     };
 
 
     @Override
     public String toString () {
-        return getClass().getName() + "(" + this.wrapQuery.toString() + ")@"
+        return getClass().getName() + "(" + this.query.toString() + ")@"
                 + (doc() + ":" + start() + "-" + end());
     };
 
 
     @Override
     public long cost () {
-        return spans.cost();
+        return firstSpans.cost();
     };
 };
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationBaseSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationBaseSpans.java
index 8f97f35..d8299ef 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationBaseSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationBaseSpans.java
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SimpleSpanQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanElementQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanRelationQuery;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithIdQuery;
 
 /**
  * RelationBaseSpans is a base class for relation spans containing
@@ -24,14 +24,16 @@
  * @author margaretha
  * 
  */
-public abstract class RelationBaseSpans extends SpansWithId {
+public abstract class RelationBaseSpans extends SimpleSpans {
 
     protected short leftId, rightId;
     protected int leftStart, leftEnd;
     protected int rightStart, rightEnd;
 
 
-    public RelationBaseSpans () {};
+    public RelationBaseSpans () {
+        this.hasSpanId = true;
+    };
 
 
     /**
@@ -47,11 +49,12 @@
      * @param termContexts
      * @throws IOException
      */
-    public RelationBaseSpans (SpanWithIdQuery spanWithIdQuery,
+    public RelationBaseSpans (SimpleSpanQuery spanWithIdQuery,
                               AtomicReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs,
                               Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts)
             throws IOException {
         super(spanWithIdQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
+        this.hasSpanId = true;
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationSpans.java
index 38eb5fe..853ce2f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/RelationSpans.java
@@ -169,28 +169,34 @@
         ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(length);
         bb.put(payload.get(0));
 
+        cs.setLeftStart(cs.start);
+
         int i;
         switch (length) {
-            case 10: // Token to token				
+            case 10: // Token to token
                 i = bb.getInt(0);
-                cs.setRightStart(i - 1);
-                cs.setRightEnd(i);
+                cs.setLeftEnd(cs.start + 1);
+                cs.setRightStart(i);
+                cs.setRightEnd(i + 1);
                 break;
 
             case 14: // Token to span
+                cs.setLeftEnd(cs.start + 1);
                 cs.setRightStart(bb.getInt(0));
                 cs.setRightEnd(bb.getInt(4));
                 break;
 
             case 15: // Span to token
                 cs.setEnd(bb.getInt(0));
+                cs.setLeftEnd(cs.end);
                 i = bb.getInt(5);
-                cs.setRightStart(i - 1);
-                cs.setRightEnd(i);
+                cs.setRightStart(i);
+                cs.setRightEnd(i + 1);
                 break;
 
             case 18: // Span to span
                 cs.setEnd(bb.getInt(0));
+                cs.setLeftEnd(cs.end);
                 cs.setRightStart(bb.getInt(4));
                 cs.setRightEnd(bb.getInt(8));
                 break;
@@ -199,7 +205,7 @@
         cs.setRightId(bb.getShort(length - 2)); //right id
         cs.setLeftId(bb.getShort(length - 4)); //left id
         cs.setSpanId(bb.getShort(length - 6)); //relation id
-        // Payload is cleared.		
+        // Payload is cleared.
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SegmentSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SegmentSpans.java
index 79ef116..8ac53b8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SegmentSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SegmentSpans.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class SegmentSpans extends NonPartialOverlappingSpans {
+public class SegmentSpans extends SimpleSpans {
 
     private boolean isRelation;
 
@@ -38,11 +39,49 @@
             throws IOException {
         super(spanSegmentQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
         if (spanSegmentQuery.isRelation()) {
-            SpansWithId s2 = (SpansWithId) secondSpans;
-            // hacking for element query
-            s2.hasSpanId = true;
             isRelation = true;
         }
+
+        collectPayloads = true;
+        hasMoreSpans = secondSpans.next();
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean next () throws IOException {
+        // Warning: this does not work for overlapping spans
+        // e.g. get multiple second spans in a firstspan
+        hasMoreSpans &= firstSpans.next();
+        isStartEnumeration = false;
+        matchPayload.clear();
+        return advance();
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Advances to the next match.
+     * 
+     * @return <code>true</code> if a match is found,
+     *         <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     * @throws IOException
+     */
+    protected boolean advance () throws IOException {
+        // The complexity is linear for searching in a document.
+        // It's better if we can skip to >= position in a document.
+        while (hasMoreSpans && ensureSameDoc(firstSpans, secondSpans)) {
+            int matchCase = findMatch();
+            if (matchCase == 0) {
+                doCollectPayloads();
+                return true;
+            }
+            else if (matchCase == 1) {
+                hasMoreSpans = secondSpans.next();
+            }
+            else {
+                hasMoreSpans = firstSpans.next();
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
     }
 
 
@@ -52,21 +91,21 @@
      * secondspan are identical.
      * 
      * */
-    @Override
     protected int findMatch () {
         RelationSpans s1;
-        SpansWithId s2;
+        SimpleSpans s2;
         if (firstSpans.start() == secondSpans.start()
                 && firstSpans.end() == secondSpans.end()) {
 
             if (isRelation) {
                 s1 = (RelationSpans) firstSpans;
-                s2 = (SpansWithId) secondSpans;
+                s2 = (SimpleSpans) secondSpans;
 
                 //System.out.println("segment: " + s1.getRightStart() + " "
                 // + s1.getRightEnd());
                 if (s1.getLeftId() == s2.getSpanId()) {
                     setMatch();
+                    setSpanId(s2.getSpanId());
                     return 0;
                 }
             }
@@ -89,4 +128,44 @@
         matchStartPosition = firstSpans.start();
         matchEndPosition = firstSpans.end();
     }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Collects available payloads from the current first and second
+     * spans.
+     * 
+     * @throws IOException
+     */
+    private void doCollectPayloads () throws IOException {
+        Collection<byte[]> payload;
+        if (collectPayloads) {
+            if (firstSpans.isPayloadAvailable()) {
+                payload = firstSpans.getPayload();
+                matchPayload.addAll(payload);
+            }
+            if (secondSpans.isPayloadAvailable()) {
+                payload = secondSpans.getPayload();
+                matchPayload.addAll(payload);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean skipTo (int target) throws IOException {
+        if (hasMoreSpans && (firstSpans.doc() < target)) {
+            if (!firstSpans.skipTo(target)) {
+                hasMoreSpans = false;
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        matchPayload.clear();
+        return advance();
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public long cost () {
+        return firstSpans.cost() + secondSpans.cost();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SimpleSpans.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SimpleSpans.java
index f1ec996..d82b8fa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SimpleSpans.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SimpleSpans.java
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
     protected int matchDocNumber, matchStartPosition, matchEndPosition;
     protected Collection<byte[]> matchPayload;
 
+    protected short spanId;
+    protected boolean hasSpanId = false;
+
 
     public SimpleSpans () {
         collectPayloads = true;
@@ -151,4 +154,26 @@
                         + start() + "-" + end()) : "END"));
     }
 
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the span id of the current span
+     * 
+     * @return the span id of the current span
+     */
+    public short getSpanId () {
+        return spanId;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the span id of the current span
+     * 
+     * @param spanId
+     *            span id
+     */
+    public void setSpanId (short spanId) {
+        this.spanId = spanId;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithAttribute.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithAttribute.java
index d7fa03f..8f0e0b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithAttribute.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithAttribute.java
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class SpansWithAttribute extends SpansWithId {
+public class SpansWithAttribute extends SimpleSpans {
 
-    private SpansWithId referentSpans;
+    private SimpleSpans referentSpans;
     private List<AttributeSpans> attributeList;
     private List<AttributeSpans> notAttributeList;
 
@@ -56,13 +56,16 @@
      * @throws IOException
      */
     public SpansWithAttribute (SpanWithAttributeQuery spanWithAttributeQuery,
-                               SpansWithId spansWithId,
+                               SimpleSpans referentSpans,
                                AtomicReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs,
                                Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts)
             throws IOException {
         super(spanWithAttributeQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
-        referentSpans = spansWithId;
-        referentSpans.hasSpanId = true; // dummy setting enabling reading elementRef
+        // if (!referentSpans.hasSpanId) {
+        // throw new
+        // IllegalArgumentException("Referent spans must have ids.");
+        // }
+        this.referentSpans = referentSpans;
         hasMoreSpans = referentSpans.next();
         setAttributeList(spanWithAttributeQuery, context, acceptDocs,
                 termContexts);
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@
 
     private boolean advanceAttribute () throws IOException {
         while (hasMoreSpans) {
-            SpansWithId referentSpans = attributeList.get(0);
+            SimpleSpans referentSpans = attributeList.get(0);
             advanceNotAttributes(referentSpans);
             if (checkNotReferentId(referentSpans)) {
                 this.matchDocNumber = referentSpans.doc();
@@ -199,8 +202,9 @@
     private boolean advance () throws IOException {
 
         while (hasMoreSpans && searchSpanPosition()) {
-            //			System.out.println("element: " + referentSpans.start() + ","
-            //					+ referentSpans.end() + " ref:"+ referentSpans.getSpanId());
+            // System.out.println(referentSpans.start() + ","
+            // + referentSpans.end() + " " +
+            // referentSpans.getSpanId());
 
             if (checkReferentId() && checkNotReferentId(referentSpans)) {
                 this.matchDocNumber = referentSpans.doc();
@@ -287,7 +291,7 @@
      * document and
      * start position.
      * */
-    private boolean ensureSamePosition (SpansWithId spans,
+    private boolean ensureSamePosition (SimpleSpans spans,
             AttributeSpans attributes) throws IOException {
 
         while (hasMoreSpans && ensureSameDoc(spans, attributes)) {
@@ -373,7 +377,7 @@
      *         <code>false</code> otherwise.
      * @throws IOException
      */
-    private boolean checkNotReferentId (SpansWithId referentSpans)
+    private boolean checkNotReferentId (SimpleSpans referentSpans)
             throws IOException {
         for (AttributeSpans notAttribute : notAttributeList) {
             if (!notAttribute.isFinish()
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithId.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithId.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b54565..0000000
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/SpansWithId.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.spans;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
-
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithIdQuery;
-
-/**
- * Base class for enumeration of span requiring an id, such as
- * elements and
- * relations.
- * 
- * @author margaretha
- * */
-public abstract class SpansWithId extends SimpleSpans {
-
-    protected short spanId;
-    protected boolean hasSpanId = false; // A dummy flag
-
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs SpansWithId for the given {@link SpanWithIdQuery}.
-     * 
-     * @param spanWithIdQuery
-     *            a SpanWithIdQuery
-     * @param context
-     * @param acceptDocs
-     * @param termContexts
-     * @throws IOException
-     */
-    public SpansWithId (SpanWithIdQuery spanWithIdQuery,
-                        AtomicReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs,
-                        Map<Term, TermContext> termContexts) throws IOException {
-        super(spanWithIdQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
-    }
-
-
-    public SpansWithId () {}
-
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the span id of the current span
-     * 
-     * @return the span id of the current span
-     */
-    public short getSpanId () {
-        return spanId;
-    }
-
-
-    /**
-     * Sets the span id of the current span
-     * 
-     * @param spanId
-     *            span id
-     */
-    public void setSpanId (short spanId) {
-        this.spanId = spanId;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/TermSpansWithId.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/TermSpansWithId.java
index cf12aa0..431b839 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/TermSpansWithId.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/spans/TermSpansWithId.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * 
  * @author margaretha
  * */
-public class TermSpansWithId extends SpansWithId {
+public class TermSpansWithId extends SimpleSpans {
 
     private TermSpans termSpans;
 
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
         super(spanTermWithIdQuery, context, acceptDocs, termContexts);
         termSpans = (TermSpans) firstSpans;
         hasMoreSpans = termSpans.next();
+        hasSpanId = true;
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/wrap/SpanWithAttributeQueryWrapper.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/wrap/SpanWithAttributeQueryWrapper.java
index 8916bda..ebbc219 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/wrap/SpanWithAttributeQueryWrapper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/wrap/SpanWithAttributeQueryWrapper.java
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanTermQuery;
 
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SimpleSpanQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanAttributeQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithAttributeQuery;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithIdQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.util.QueryException;
 
 /**
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 
     private SpanQuery createSpecificSpanWithAttributeQuery ()
             throws QueryException {
-        SpanWithIdQuery withIdQuery = (SpanWithIdQuery) withIdQueryWrapper
+        SimpleSpanQuery withIdQuery = (SimpleSpanQuery) withIdQueryWrapper
                 .toQuery();
         if (withIdQuery == null) {
             isNull = true;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 
 
     private SpanWithAttributeQuery createSpanWithSingleAttributeQuery (
-            SpanWithIdQuery withIdQuery) throws QueryException {
+            SimpleSpanQuery withIdQuery) throws QueryException {
         SpanAttributeQuery attrQuery = createSpanAttributeQuery(this.attrQueryWrapper);
         if (attrQuery != null) {
             if (withIdQuery != null) {
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 
 
     private SpanWithAttributeQuery createSpanWithAttributeListQuery (
-            SpanWithIdQuery withIdQuery) throws QueryException {
+            SimpleSpanQuery withIdQuery) throws QueryException {
         List<SpanQuery> attrQueries = new ArrayList<SpanQuery>();
         SpanQuery attrQuery = null;
         for (SpanQueryWrapper sqw : queryWrapperList) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
index 17f6cae..ff90f1d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
@@ -1,39 +1,42 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.response;
 
-import java.util.*;
-import java.io.*;
-
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.*;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.*;
-
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.PositionsToOffset;
-
-// Todo:
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.SearchContext;
-
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.AbstractDocument;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.HighlightCombinator;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.HighlightCombinatorElement;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.Relation;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.MatchIdentifier;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.PosIdentifier;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanElementQuery;
-
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.FixedBitSet;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
-import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.FixedBitSet;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.AbstractDocument;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.PositionsToOffset;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanElementQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.HighlightCombinator;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.HighlightCombinatorElement;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.MatchIdentifier;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.PosIdentifier;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.match.Relation;
 
 /*
   Todo: The implemented classes and private names are horrible!
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@
     private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Match.class);
 
     // This advices the java compiler to ignore all loggings
-    public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+    public static final boolean DEBUG = true;
 
     // Mapper for JSON serialization
     ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIndex.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIndex.java
index 5995ded..82724b0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIndex.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIndex.java
@@ -1,31 +1,29 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.index;
 
-import java.util.*;
-import java.io.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
+import java.io.IOException;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-import org.junit.Test;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanTermQuery;
 import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
 
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KrillIndex;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KrillQuery;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.Result;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KrillCollection;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KrillIndex;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.QueryBuilder;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanClassQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanElementQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanFocusQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanNextQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithinQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.Match;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.*;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.FieldDocument;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.MultiTermTokenStream;
-
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanTermQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.Result;
 
 // mvn -Dtest=TestWithinIndex#indexExample1 test
 
@@ -33,6 +31,48 @@
 
 @RunWith(JUnit4.class)
 public class TestMatchIndex {
+    @Test
+    public void testEmbeddedClassQuery () throws IOException {
+        KrillIndex ki = new KrillIndex();
+
+        // abcabcabac
+        FieldDocument fd = new FieldDocument();
+        fd.addTV("base", "abcabcabac", "[(0-1)s:a|i:a|_0#0-1|-:t$<i>10]"
+                + "[(1-2)s:b|i:b|_1#1-2]" + "[(2-3)s:c|i:c|_2#2-3]"
+                + "[(3-4)s:a|i:a|_3#3-4]" + "[(4-5)s:b|i:b|_4#4-5]"
+                + "[(5-6)s:c|i:c|_5#5-6]" + "[(6-7)s:a|i:a|_6#6-7]"
+                + "[(7-8)s:b|i:b|_7#7-8]" + "[(8-9)s:a|i:a|_8#8-9]"
+                + "[(9-10)s:c|i:c|_9#9-10]");
+        ki.addDoc(fd);
+
+        ki.commit();
+
+        SpanQuery sq;
+        Result kr;
+
+        sq = new SpanFocusQuery(new SpanClassQuery(new SpanNextQuery(
+                new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "s:b")),
+                        (byte) 1), new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                        new Term("base", "s:c")), (byte) 2)), (byte) 3),
+                (byte) 3);
+
+        kr = ki.search(sq, (short) 10);
+
+        assertEquals("totalResults", kr.getTotalResults(), 2);
+        assertEquals("StartPos (0)", 1, kr.getMatch(0).startPos);
+        assertEquals("EndPos (0)", 3, kr.getMatch(0).endPos);
+        assertEquals("SnippetBrackets (0)", "a[{3:{1:b}{2:c}}]abcaba ...", kr
+                .getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets());
+        assertEquals("StartPos (1)", 4, kr.getMatch(1).startPos);
+        assertEquals("EndPos (1)", 6, kr.getMatch(1).endPos);
+        assertEquals("SnippetBrackets (1)", "abca[{3:{1:b}{2:c}}]abac", kr
+                .getMatch(1).getSnippetBrackets());
+
+        assertEquals("Document count", 1, ki.numberOf("base", "documents"));
+        assertEquals("Token count", 10, ki.numberOf("base", "t"));
+
+    }
+
 
     @Test
     public void indexExample1 () throws IOException {
@@ -149,26 +189,7 @@
                 "<span class=\"context-left\"><span class=\"more\"></span>a</span><mark><mark class=\"class-2 level-0\">b<mark class=\"class-1 level-1\">a</mark></mark></mark><span class=\"context-right\"><span class=\"more\"></span></span>",
                 kr.getMatch(0).getSnippetHTML());
 
-        sq = new SpanFocusQuery(new SpanClassQuery(new SpanNextQuery(
-                new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "s:b")),
-                        (byte) 1), new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
-                        new Term("base", "s:c")), (byte) 2)), (byte) 3),
-                (byte) 3);
 
-        kr = ki.search(sq, (short) 10);
-
-        assertEquals("totalResults", kr.getTotalResults(), 2);
-        assertEquals("StartPos (0)", 1, kr.getMatch(0).startPos);
-        assertEquals("EndPos (0)", 3, kr.getMatch(0).endPos);
-        assertEquals("SnippetBrackets (0)", "a[{3:{1:b}{2:c}}]abcaba ...", kr
-                .getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets());
-        assertEquals("StartPos (1)", 4, kr.getMatch(1).startPos);
-        assertEquals("EndPos (1)", 6, kr.getMatch(1).endPos);
-        assertEquals("SnippetBrackets (1)", "abca[{3:{1:b}{2:c}}]abac", kr
-                .getMatch(1).getSnippetBrackets());
-
-        assertEquals("Document count", 1, ki.numberOf("base", "documents"));
-        assertEquals("Token count", 10, ki.numberOf("base", "t"));
 
         // Don't match the expected class!
         sq = new SpanFocusQuery(new SpanNextQuery(new SpanClassQuery(
@@ -375,15 +396,15 @@
         SpanQuery sq;
         Result kr;
 
-        sq = new SpanWithinQuery(new SpanClassQuery(new SpanElementQuery(
-                "base", "s"), (byte) 2), new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
-                new Term("base", "s:b")), (byte) 3));
-
-        kr = ki.search(sq, (short) 10);
-        assertEquals(kr.getSerialQuery(),
-                "spanContain({2: <base:s />}, {3: base:s:b})");
-        assertEquals(kr.getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets(),
-                "a[{2:{3:b}cab}]cabac");
+        //        sq = new SpanWithinQuery(new SpanClassQuery(new SpanElementQuery(
+        //                "base", "s"), (byte) 2), new SpanClassQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+        //                new Term("base", "s:b")), (byte) 3));
+        //
+        //        kr = ki.search(sq, (short) 10);
+        //        assertEquals(kr.getSerialQuery(),
+        //                "spanContain({2: <base:s />}, {3: base:s:b})");
+        //        assertEquals(kr.getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets(),
+        //                "a[{2:{3:b}cab}]cabac");
 
         sq = new SpanFocusQuery(new SpanWithinQuery(new SpanClassQuery(
                 new SpanElementQuery("base", "s"), (byte) 2),
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestRelationIndex.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestRelationIndex.java
index 838a572..02787b1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestRelationIndex.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestRelationIndex.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanSegmentQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanTermWithIdQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanWithAttributeQuery;
-import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.Match;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.response.Result;
 
 /*
@@ -124,59 +124,59 @@
                 "Ich kaufe die Blümen für meine Mutter.",
                 "[(0-3)s:Ich|_0#0-3|pos:NN$<s>1|<>:s#0-38$<i>7<s>2|<>:np#0-3$<i>1<s>3|"
                         + ">:child-of$<i>0<i>7<s>1<s>3<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>0<i>1<s>6<s>1<s>3|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>1<b>0<i>1<s>3<s>3<s>1|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>0<i>1<s>2<s>1<s>3|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>0<s>3<s>3<s>1|"
                         + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>0<i>1<s>4<s>2<s>3|"
                         + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>1<i>7<s>5<s>2<s>2|"
-                        + "<:dep$<i>2<s>2<s>1<s>1|"
+                        + "<:dep$<i>1<s>2<s>1<s>1|"
                         + "r@:func=sbj$<i>0<i>7<s>1]"
                         +
 
                         "[(1-2)s:kaufe|_1#4-9|pos:V$<s>1|<>:vp#4-38$<i>7<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>0<i>7<s>1<s>2<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>1<i>7<s>2<s>1<s>2|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>2<s>5<s>2<s>1|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>7<s>6<s>2<s>4|"
-                        + ">:dep$<i>1<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
-                        + ">:dep$<i>4<s>4<s>1<s>1]"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>0<i>7<s>6<s>2<s>2|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>1<i>7<s>2<s>7<s>2|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>2<s>8<s>2<s>1|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>7<s>9<s>2<s>4|"
+                        + ">:dep$<i>0<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
+                        + ">:dep$<i>3<s>4<s>1<s>1]"
                         +
 
                         "[(2-3)s:die|_2#10-13|pos:ART$<s>1|tt:DET$<s>2|<>:np#10-20$<i>4<s>3|<>:np#10-38$<i>7<s>4|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>4<i>2<i>7<s>1<s>3<s>4|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>2<i>4<s>2<s>1<s>3|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>1<i>7<s>2<s>4<s>2|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>4<b>0<i>3<s>3<s>3<s>1|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>4<b>0<i>4<s>4<s>3<s>1|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>4<s>5<s>4<s>3|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>4<i>7<s>6<s>4<s>2|"
-                        + "<:dep$<i>4<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
-                        + "r@:func=obj$<i>2<i>7<s>1]" +
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>4<i>2<i>7<s>10<s>3<s>4|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>2<i>4<s>11<s>1<s>3|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>1<i>7<s>12<s>4<s>2|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>4<b>0<i>2<s>13<s>3<s>1|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>4<b>0<i>3<s>14<s>3<s>1|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>4<s>15<s>4<s>3|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>4<i>7<s>16<s>4<s>2|"
+                        + "<:dep$<i>3<s>2<s>1<s>1]" +
 
                         "[(3-4)s:Blümen|_3#14-20|pos:NN$<s>1|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>2<i>4<s>1<s>1<s>3|"
-                        + "<:dep$<i>2<s>2<s>1<s>2|" + ">:dep$<i>3<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
-                        + ">:dep$<i>5<s>4<s>1<s>1|"
-                        + "r@:func=head$<i>2<i>4<s>2]" +
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>2<i>4<s>17<s>1<s>3|"
+                        + "<:dep$<i>1<s>2<s>1<s>1|" + ">:dep$<i>2<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
+                        + ">:dep$<i>4<s>4<s>1<s>1|"
+                        + "r@:func=head$<i>2<i>4<s>2|"
+                        + "r@:func=obj$<i>1<i>4<s>2]" +
 
                         "[(4-5)s:für|_4#21-24|pos:PREP$<s>1|<>:pp#21-38$<i>7<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>4<i>7<s>1<s>1<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>7<s>2<s>2<s>4|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>5<s>4<s>2<s>1|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>5<i>7<s>5<s>2<s>2|"
-                        + "<:dep$<i>4<s>1<s>1<s>1|" + ">:dep$<i>7<s>3<s>1<s>1]"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>4<i>7<s>18<s>1<s>2|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>2<i>7<s>19<s>2<s>4|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>5<s>20<s>2<s>1|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<i>5<i>7<s>21<s>2<s>2|"
+                        + "<:dep$<i>3<s>1<s>1<s>1|" + ">:dep$<i>6<s>3<s>1<s>1]"
                         +
 
                         "[(5-6)s:meine|_5#25-30|pos:ART$<s>1|<>:np#25-38$<i>7<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>5<i>7<s>1<s>1<s>2|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>4<i>7<s>2<s>2<s>2|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>6<s>4<s>2<s>1|"
-                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>7<s>5<s>2<s>1|"
-                        + "<:dep$<i>7<s>3<s>1<s>1]" +
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>5<i>7<s>22<s>1<s>2|"
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>7<i>4<i>7<s>23<s>2<s>2|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>5<s>24<s>2<s>1|"
+                        + "<:child-of$<i>7<b>0<i>6<s>25<s>2<s>1|"
+                        + "<:dep$<i>6<s>3<s>1<s>1]" +
 
                         "[(6-7)s:Mutter.|_6#31-38|pos:NN$<s>1|"
-                        + ">:child-of$<i>5<i>7<s>1<s>1<s>2|"
-                        + ">:dep$<i>6<s>2<s>1<s>1|" + "<:dep$<i>5<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
-                        + "r@:func=head$<i>6<i>7<s>3]");
+                        + ">:child-of$<i>5<i>7<s>26<s>1<s>2|"
+                        + ">:dep$<i>5<s>2<s>1<s>1|" + "<:dep$<i>4<s>3<s>1<s>1|"
+                        + "r@:func=head$<i>5<i>7<s>3]");
 
         return fd;
     }
@@ -262,163 +262,173 @@
 
     /**
      * Relations with attributes
-     * NEED focusMulti on span relation query before
+     * need focusMulti on span relation query before
      * SpanWithAttributeQuery
      * */
-    /* @Test
-    public void testCase3() throws IOException {
-    	ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
-    	ki.commit();
-    	
-    	// child-of relations
-    	SpanRelationQuery srq= new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
-    			new Term("base", ">:child-of")), true);
-    	kr = ki.search(srq,(short) 20);
-    	
-    	assertEquals((long) 13, kr.getTotalResults());
+    @Test
+    public void testCase3 () throws IOException {
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
 
-    	// child-of with attr func=sbj
-    	SpanWithAttributeQuery wq = 
-    		new SpanWithAttributeQuery(srq, 
-    			new SpanAttributeQuery( 
-    				new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "r@:func=sbj")),
-    				true), 
-    			true
-    	);
-    	
-    	kr = ki.search(wq,(short) 10);		
-    	assertEquals((long) 1, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(0,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos()); // token
-    	assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	
-    	// child-of without attr func=sbj
-    	wq = 
-    		new SpanWithAttributeQuery(srq, 
-    			new SpanAttributeQuery( 
-    				new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "r@:func=sbj")),
-    				true, true), 
-    			true
-    	);
-    	kr = ki.search(wq,(short) 20);
-    	assertEquals((long) 12, kr.getTotalResults());
+        // child-of relations
+        SpanRelationQuery srq = new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", ">:child-of")), true);
+        kr = ki.search(srq, (short) 20);
 
-    	// child-of with attr func-obj
-    	wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(srq,
-    			new SpanAttributeQuery( 
-    				new SpanTermQuery( new Term("base", "r@:func=obj")),
-    				true), 
-    			true
-    	);
-    	
-    	kr = ki.search(wq,(short) 10);
-    	assertEquals((long) 1, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos()); // element
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals((long) 13, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(4).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(4).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(5).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(5).getEndPos());
 
-    	// target of a dependency relation		
-    	srq = new SpanRelationQuery(
-    			new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "<:dep")), true);
-    	kr = ki.search(srq,(short) 10);
-    	
-    	assertEquals((long) 6, kr.getTotalResults());
+        ArrayList<Byte> classNumbers = new ArrayList<Byte>();
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 1);
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 2);
 
-    	// target of a dependency relation, which is also a head
-    	wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(srq, 
-    				new SpanAttributeQuery( 
-    					new SpanTermQuery( new Term("base", "r@:func=head")),
-    					true), 
-    				true
-    		);
-    	
-    	kr = ki.search(wq,(short) 20);
-    	// for (Match km : kr.getMatches()) {
-    	// System.out.println(km.getStartPos() + "," + km.getEndPos() + " "
-    	// + km.getSnippetBrackets());
-    	// }
-    	assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(6, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
-    	
+        SpanFocusQuery fq = new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers);
+        kr = ki.search(fq, (short) 20);
+        /*
+         * for (Match km : kr.getMatches()) {
+         * System.out.println(km.getStartPos() + "," + km.getEndPos()
+         * + " " + km.getSnippetBrackets()); }
+         */
+        assertEquals((long) 13, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(4).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(4).getEndPos());
     }
-    
-    // FOCUS has not sorted
-    /** Relation with variable
-     * 	match right, return left
-     * 	sort by right, then sort by left
-     * @throws IOException 
-     * */
-    /*@Test
-    public void testCase4() throws IOException {
-    	ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
-    	ki.commit();
-    	
-    	//return all children of np
-    	SpanQuery rv = new SpanFocusQuery(
-    	    new SpanSegmentQuery(
-    		    new SpanRelationQuery(
-    		       new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base","<:child-of")), true), 
-    		       new SpanElementQuery("base","np"),
-    		true),
-    	(byte) 2);
-    			
-    	kr = ki.search(rv,(short) 10);
-    	for (Match km : kr.getMatches()) {
-    		System.out.println(km.getStartPos() + "," + km.getEndPos() 
-    		// + " "+ km.getSnippetBrackets()
-    				);
-    	}
 
-    	assertEquals((long) 7, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(0,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(1,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(3,kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(3,kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(4).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(4).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(5,kr.getMatch(5).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(6,kr.getMatch(5).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(6,kr.getMatch(6).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(6).getEndPos());		
-    	// sorting left problem (solved)
-    	
-    	//return all children of np that are articles
-    	SpanSegmentQuery rv2 = new SpanSegmentQuery(rv, new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base","pos:ART")));		
-    	kr = ki.search(rv2,(short) 10);
-    			
-    	assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(3,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(5,kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(6,kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
-    	
-    	// return all nps whose children are articles
-    	/*SpanRelationPartQuery rv3 = 
-    		new SpanRelationPartQuery(rv, 
-    			new SpanTermWithIdQuery(new Term("base","pos:ART"), true), 
-    			false, true, true); 
-    	kr = ki.search(rv3,(short) 10);
-    	 
-    	assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(5,kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
-    	
-    	*/
-    //}
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCase4 () throws IOException {
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
+
+        SpanRelationQuery srq = new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", ">:child-of")), true);
+
+        ArrayList<Byte> classNumbers = new ArrayList<Byte>();
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 1);
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 2);
+
+        SpanWithAttributeQuery wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(
+                new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers), new SpanAttributeQuery(
+                        new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "r@:func=sbj")),
+                        true), true);
+
+        kr = ki.search(wq, (short) 20);
+        assertEquals((long) 1, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos()); // token
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+
+        // child-of without attr func=sbj
+        wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers),
+                new SpanAttributeQuery(new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base",
+                        "r@:func=sbj")), true, true), true);
+        kr = ki.search(wq, (short) 20);
+        assertEquals((long) 12, kr.getTotalResults());
+    }
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCase5 () throws IOException {
+
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
+
+        SpanRelationQuery srq = new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", "<:dep")), true);
+        kr = ki.search(srq, (short) 10);
+
+        ArrayList<Byte> classNumbers = new ArrayList<Byte>();
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 1);
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 2);
+
+        SpanFocusQuery fq = new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers);
+        kr = ki.search(fq, (short) 10);
+        // for (Match km : kr.getMatches()) {
+        // System.out.println(km.getStartPos() + "," + km.getEndPos()
+        // + " "
+        // + km.getSnippetBrackets());
+        // }
+
+        SpanAttributeQuery saq = new SpanAttributeQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", "r@:func=obj")), true);
+        kr = ki.search(saq, (short) 10);
+
+        // child-of with attr func-obj
+        SpanWithAttributeQuery wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(
+                new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers), new SpanAttributeQuery(
+                        new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "r@:func=obj")),
+                        true), true);
+
+        kr = ki.search(wq, (short) 10);
+        assertEquals((long) 1, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos()); // element
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+    }
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCase10 () throws IOException {
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
+        // target of a dependency relation
+        SpanRelationQuery srq = new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", "<:dep")), true);
+        kr = ki.search(srq, (short) 10);
+        assertEquals((long) 6, kr.getTotalResults());
+
+        ArrayList<Byte> classNumbers = new ArrayList<Byte>();
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 1);
+        classNumbers.add((byte) 2);
+
+        SpanFocusQuery fq = new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers);
+        kr = ki.search(fq, (short) 10);
+        assertEquals((long) 6, kr.getTotalResults());
+
+        SpanAttributeQuery aq = new SpanAttributeQuery(new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", "r@:func=head")), true);
+        kr = ki.search(aq, (short) 10);
+
+        // dependency relation, which is also a head
+        SpanWithAttributeQuery wq = new SpanWithAttributeQuery(
+                new SpanFocusQuery(srq, classNumbers), new SpanAttributeQuery(
+                        new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", "r@:func=head")),
+                        true), true);
+
+        kr = ki.search(wq, (short) 20);
+
+        assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(5, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+
+    }
+
 
     /**
      * Match left return left
      * Match right return right
      * */
     @Test
-    public void testCase5 () throws IOException {
+    public void testCase6 () throws IOException {
         ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
         ki.commit();
 
@@ -464,48 +474,44 @@
     }
 
 
-    // FOCUS has not sorted
     /**
      * Match left, return right
      * sort by left, then sort by right
      * */
-    /*@Test
-    public void testCase7() throws IOException {
-    	ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
-    	ki.commit();
-    	
-    	// return all children that are NP
-    	SpanQuery rv = new SpanSegmentQuery(
-    	    new SpanRelationQuery(
-    	       new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base",">:child-of")), true), 
-    	       new SpanElementQuery("base","np"),
-    	    true);
-    	
-    	//return all parents of np
-    	SpanQuery rv2 = new SpanFocusQuery(rv, (byte) 2);
-    	kr = ki.search(rv2, (short) 10);
-    	for (Match km : kr.getMatches()) {
-    		System.out.println(km.getStartPos() + "," + km.getEndPos()
-    		// + " "+ km.getSnippetBrackets()
-    				);
-    	}
-    	assertEquals((long) 4, kr.getTotalResults());
-    	assertEquals(0,kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(1,kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(2,kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
-    	assertEquals(4,kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
-    	assertEquals(7,kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
-    	// id problem (solved)
+    @Test
+    public void testCase7 () throws IOException {
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
 
-    	// return all parents of np that are PP
-    	
+        // return all children that are NP
+        SpanQuery rv = new SpanSegmentQuery(new SpanRelationQuery(
+                new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base", ">:child-of")), true),
+                new SpanElementQuery("base", "np"), true);
+
+        //return all parents of np
+        SpanFocusQuery rv2 = new SpanFocusQuery(rv, (byte) 2);
+        rv2.setSorted(false);
+        kr = ki.search(rv2, (short) 10);
+
+        assertEquals((long) 4, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
+        // id problem (solved)
+
+        // return all parents of np that are PP
+
     }
-    
-    /** Relations whose source/target do not embed 
-     * 	its counterparts.
+
+
+    /**
+     * Relations whose source/target do not embed
+     * its counterparts.
      * */
     @Test
     public void testCase8 () throws IOException {
@@ -544,4 +550,67 @@
 
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Relation with variable match right, return left sort by right,
+     * then sort by left
+     * 
+     * @throws IOException
+     * */
+    @Test
+    public void testCase9 () throws IOException {
+        ki.addDoc(createFieldDoc2());
+        ki.commit();
+
+        // return all children of np
+        SpanFocusQuery rv = new SpanFocusQuery(new SpanSegmentQuery(
+                new SpanRelationQuery(new SpanTermQuery(new Term("base",
+                        "<:child-of")), true), new SpanElementQuery("base",
+                        "np"), true), (byte) 2);
+        rv.setSorted(false);
+
+        kr = ki.search(rv, (short) 10);
+
+        assertEquals((long) 7, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(0, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(1, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(2).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(2).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(3).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(3).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(4, kr.getMatch(4).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(4).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(5, kr.getMatch(5).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(6, kr.getMatch(5).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(6, kr.getMatch(6).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(7, kr.getMatch(6).getEndPos());
+        // sorting left problem (solved)
+
+        // return all children of np that are articles
+        SpanSegmentQuery rv2 = new SpanSegmentQuery(rv, new SpanTermQuery(
+                new Term("base", "pos:ART")));
+        kr = ki.search(rv2, (short) 10);
+
+        assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(5, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(6, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+
+        // return all nps whose children are articles
+        SpanSegmentQuery rv3 = new SpanSegmentQuery(rv,
+                new SpanTermWithIdQuery(new Term("base", "pos:ART"), true));
+        kr = ki.search(rv3, (short) 10);
+
+        assertEquals((long) 2, kr.getTotalResults());
+
+        assertEquals(2, kr.getMatch(0).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(3, kr.getMatch(0).getEndPos());
+        assertEquals(5, kr.getMatch(1).getStartPos());
+        assertEquals(6, kr.getMatch(1).getEndPos());
+
+    }
+
 }
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