--# -path=.:../../prelude --1 A Small Predication Library -- -- (c) Aarne Ranta 2003 under Gnu GPL. -- -- This library is built on a language-independent API of -- resource grammars. It has a common part, the type signatures -- (defined here), and language-dependent parts. The user of -- the library should only have to look at the type signatures. incomplete resource Predication = open Resource, ResourceExt in { -- We first define a set of predication patterns. oper predV1 : V -> NP -> S ; -- one-place verb: "John walks" predV2 : TV -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- two-place verb: "John loves Mary" predV3 : V3 -> NP -> NP -> NP -> S ;-- three-place verb: "John prefers Mary to Jane" predVColl : V -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- collective verb: "John and Mary fight" predA1 : Adj1 -> NP -> S ; -- one-place adjective: "John is old" predA2 : Adj2 -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- two-place adj: "John is married to Mary" predAComp : AdjDeg -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- compar adj: "John is older than Mary" predAColl : Adj1 -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- collective adj: "John and Mary are married" predN1 : N -> NP -> S ; -- one-place noun: "John is a man" predN2 : Fun -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- two-place noun: "John is a lover of Mary" predNColl : N -> NP -> NP -> S ; -- collective noun: "John and Mary are lovers" predAdv : AdV -> NP -> S ; -- adverb: "Joh is outside" -- Individual-valued function applications. appFun1 : Fun -> NP -> NP ; -- one-place function: "the successor of x" appFun2 : Fun2 -> NP -> NP -> NP ; -- two-place function: "the distance from x to y" appFunColl : Fun -> NP -> NP -> NP ; -- collective function: "the sum of x and y" -- Families of types, expressed by common nouns depending on arguments. appFam1 : Fun -> NP -> CN ; -- one-place family: "divisor of x" appFamColl : Fun -> NP -> NP -> CN ; -- collective family: "path between x and y" -- Type constructor, similar to a family except that the argument is a type. constrTyp1 : Fun -> CN -> CN ; -- Logical connectives on two sentences. conjS : S -> S -> S ; disjS : S -> S -> S ; implS : S -> S -> S ; -- As an auxiliary, we need two-place conjunction of names ("John and Mary"), -- used in collective predication. conjNP : NP -> NP -> NP ; ----------------------------- ---- what follows should be an implementation of the preceding oper predV1 = \F, x -> PredVP x (PosV F) ; predV2 = \F, x, y -> PredVP x (PosTV F y) ; predV3 = \F, x, y, z -> PredVP x (PosVG (PredV3 F y z)) ; predVColl = \F, x, y -> PredVP (conjNP x y) (PosV F) ; predA1 = \F, x -> PredVP x (PosA (AdjP1 F)) ; predA2 = \F, x, y -> PredVP x (PosA (ComplAdj F y)) ; predAComp = \F, x, y -> PredVP x (PosA (ComparAdjP F y)) ; predAColl = \F, x, y -> PredVP (conjNP x y) (PosA (AdjP1 F)) ; predN1 = \F, x -> PredVP x (PosCN (UseN F)) ; predN2 = \F, x, y -> PredVP x (PosCN (AppFun F y)) ; predNColl = \F, x, y -> PredVP (conjNP x y) (PosCN (UseN F)) ; predAdv = \F, x -> PredVP x (PosVG (PredAdV F)) ; appFun1 = \f, x -> DefOneNP (AppFun f x) ; appFun2 = \f, x, y -> DefOneNP (AppFun (AppFun2 f y) x) ; appFunColl = \f, x, y -> DefOneNP (AppFun f (conjNP x y)) ; appFam1 = \F, x -> AppFun F x ; appFamColl = \F, x, y -> AppFun F (conjNP x y) ; conjS = \A, B -> ConjS AndConj (TwoS A B) ; disjS = \A, B -> ConjS OrConj (TwoS A B) ; implS = \A, B -> SubjS IfSubj A B ; constrTyp1 = \F, A -> AppFun F (IndefManyNP A) ; conjNP = \x, y -> ConjNP AndConj (TwoNP x y) ; } ;