[SRILM User List] ngram-count's ARPA N-gram LM extensions beyond "\end\" marker

[Sander Maijers]

In the case of an LM created with '-skip', what is the meaning of the 
values past "\end\"?

They are of the form:

a-team 0.5
a-teens 0.5
a-test 0.5


I do not understand their relation to these 'ngram-count' parameters:

-init-lm lmfile
     Load an LM to initialize the parameters of the skip-N-gram.
-skip-init value
     The initial skip probability for all words.
-em-iters n
     The maximum number of EM iterations.
-em-delta d
     The convergence criterion for EM: if the relative change in log 
likelihood falls below the given value, iteration stops.