PronounProdclass

Basic class for pronoun phrases. The specific pronouns are language-dependent; each instance should define its pronounType property to an appropriate PronounXxx constant.

class PronounProd : NounPhraseProd

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

PronounProd
NounPhraseProd
BasicProd
` object`

Subclass Tree

Global Objects

(none)

Summary of Properties

isPlural isPossessive pronounType

Inherited from NounPhraseProd :
filterForCollectives

Inherited from BasicProd :
firstTokenIndex isSpecialResponseMatch lastTokenIndex

Summary of Methods

checkAnaphoricBinding resolveNouns

Inherited from NounPhraseProd :
filterTruncations getVerifyKeepers

Inherited from BasicProd :
canResolveTo getOrigText getOrigTokenList setOrigTokenList

Properties

isPlural

parser.t[1481]

Is this pronoun a singular or a plural? A pronoun like “it” or “he” is singular, because it refers to a single antecedent; “them” is plural. Language modules that define their own custom pronoun subclasses should override this as needed.

isPossessive

parser.t[1473]

is this a possessive usage?

pronounType

parser.t[1470]

our pronoun specifier - this must be set in each rule instance to one of the PronounXxx constants to specify which pronoun to use when resolving the pronoun phrase

Methods

checkAnaphoricBinding (resolver, results)

parser.t[1492]

Check for an anaphoric binding. Returns a list (which is allowed to be empty) if this can refer back to an earlier noun phrase in the same command, nil if not. By default, we consider pronouns to be non-anaphoric, meaning they refer to something from a previous sentence, not something in this same sentence. In most languages, pronouns don’t refer to objects in other noun phrases within the same predicate unless they’re reflexive.

resolveNouns (resolver, results)

parser.t[1399]

no description available

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