AdvVP built its result with setPrefix, so the adverbial landed before the
verb. Polish is neutrally SVO, and this matters beyond adverbs proper: an
object reached through PrepNP arrives at AdvVP as an Adv, so a two-place
verb came out as *"π zbiór pusty przecina" rather than "π przecina zbiór
pusty". Both orders are grammatical, but the preverbal one topicalizes.
"śpi tutaj" is as good as "tutaj śpi", so the RGL's own example is
unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adding Polish to informath (grammars/next) exposed a set of gaps. Unlike
Czech, StructuralPol was already complete; what was missing was a handful
of lins, a way to govern the nominative, and some outright mistakes.
Missing lins, all reached as qualified Grammar.X by the application's
functors and so not shimmable from the application side:
AdjectivePol AdvAP
SentencePol SSubjS
IdiomPol ImpP3
StructuralPol that_Subj
MarkupPol new module (Markup is not part of the RGL build script,
so it is compiled on demand, as MarkupCze is)
ParadigmsPol mkAdv (every other ParadigmsX has it; the application
interfaces reach it as Paradigms.mkAdv)
ImpP3 has no third-person imperative to use, so it takes the standard
"niech" periphrasis. The copula takes the future ("niech x będzie grupą")
and every other verb the present ("niech x należy do A"): być is the only
Polish verb with a synthetic future, and imienne marks exactly the copular
VPs.
NomPrep: ComplCase had no nominative at all, so "jako", "niż" and
"zdefiniowany jako" -- all of which govern the nominative -- came out
locative ("mniejszy niż liczbie"). mkCompl now maps Nom to a new NomPrep,
and the dep tables of the pronouns, nounPN, mkPN and the structural NPs
cover it. LexiconNounPol is marked DO NOT EDIT, but paris_PN and john_PN
inline their own dep tables and so had to be extended too.
Two corrections:
VerbPol.CompCN used the nominative for a predicative noun, giving
"x jest grupa"; Polish uses the instrumental, as CompNP right below it
already does.
ExtendPol.ExistsNP inherited ExistNP from ExtendFunctor, giving
"jest macierz". Polish distinguishes the two: "there exists" is istnieć,
which is what mathematical prose uses.
ParadigmsPol.guess_paradigm_basic never matched -ość, the productive
feminine abstract suffix, so sprzeczność took a masculine declension
(*sprzeczności/a, *sprzecznościowi) despite being tagged feminine. It now
routes to the kość paradigm.
Also documents, without changing, why the 2-string mkN throws its genitive
away: guess_paradigm's 2-string table is unsound (its first branch matches
every noun in -a, and its branches disagree about whether mkNTable* takes
the nominative or the bare stem), so passing sggen to it turns
"liczba"/"liczby" into *liczbaa. The 1-string guesser is the sound path
until that table is repaired.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Krasimir Angelov