Founding the newly structured GF2.0 cvs archive.

grammars/resource/english/DatabaseEng.gf

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+concrete DatabaseEng of Database = open Prelude,Syntax,English,Predication,Paradigms,DatabaseRes in {
+
+flags lexer=text ; unlexer=text ;
+
+lincat 
+  Phras      = SS1 Bool ;            -- long or short form
+  Subject    = NP ;
+  Noun       = CN ;  
+  Property   = AP ;
+  Comparison = AdjDeg ;
+  Relation   = Adj2 ;
+  Feature    = Fun ;
+  Value      = NP ;
+  Name       = ProperName ;
+
+lin
+  LongForm  sent = ss (sent.s ! True ++ "?") ;
+  ShortForm sent = ss (sent.s ! False ++ "?") ;
+
+  WhichAre A B = mkSent (defaultQuestion (IntVP (NounIPMany A) (PosA B)))
+                        (defaultNounPhrase (IndefManyNP (ModAdj B A))) ;
+
+  IsIt Q A   = mkSentSame (defaultQuestion (QuestVP Q (PosA A))) ;
+
+  MoreThan   = ComparAdjP ;
+  TheMost    = SuperlNP ;
+  Relatively C _  = PositAdjP C ; 
+
+  RelatedTo  = ComplAdj ;
+
+  FeatureOf = appFun1 ;
+  ValueOf F V = appFun1 F (UsePN V) ;
+
+  WithProperty A B = ModAdj B A ;
+
+  Individual = UsePN ;
+
+  AllN = DetNP AllDet ;
+  MostN = DetNP MostDet ;
+  EveryN = DetNP EveryDet ;
+
+-- only these are language-dependent
+
+  Any = detNounPhrase anyPlDet ; ---
+
+  IsThere A  = mkSentPrel ["is there"]  (defaultNounPhrase (IndefOneNP A)) ;
+  AreThere A = mkSentPrel ["are there"] (defaultNounPhrase (IndefManyNP A)) ;
+
+  WhatIs V   = mkSentPrel ["what is"] (defaultNounPhrase V) ;
+
+} ;