fido.linguistic.components
Class Pronoun

java.lang.Object
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  +--fido.linguistic.components.Pronoun

All Implemented Interfaces:

Noun

public class Pronoun

extends java.lang.Object

implements Noun

Represents a pronoun, which tells the system to look for a noun in the Discourse to replace.

The following table shows the pronouns for English:

Group	Person	Gender	Subjective	Objective	Possessive	Possessive Adjective
false	First		I	me	mine	my
	Second		you	you	yours	your
	Third	masculine	he	him	his	his
		feminine	she	her	hers	her
		neuter	it	it		its
true	First		we	us	ours	our
	Second		you	you	yours	your
	Third		they	them	theirs	their

See Also:

Discourse, PronounResolver

Field Summary

static int	FEMALE
static int	FIRST Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()
static int	MALE
static int	NEUTER
static int	SECOND Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()
static int	THIRD Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()

Constructor Summary

Pronoun(int person, int gender, boolean group)
Creates a new Pronoun object.

Method Summary

int	getGender() Returns the gender for this pronoun.
int	getPerson() Returns the person for this pronoun.
boolean	isGroup() Returns if the pronoun represents a group.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

FIRST

public static final int FIRST

Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()

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SECOND

public static final int SECOND

Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()

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THIRD

public static final int THIRD

Constant for setPerson() and getPerson()

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MALE

public static final int MALE

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FEMALE

public static final int FEMALE

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NEUTER

public static final int NEUTER

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Constructor Detail

Pronoun

public Pronoun(int person,
               int gender,
               boolean group)

Creates a new Pronoun object. Person and Gender parameters should use the constant values defined within this class.

Parameters:

person - Person of the pronoun.

gender - Gender of the pronoun.

group - Identifies the pronoun as representing a group.

Method Detail

getPerson

public int getPerson()

Returns the person for this pronoun. Person can hold the following constant values:

• FIRST - resolves to the speaker
• SECOND - resolves to the listener
• THIRD - resolves to some third party

Returns:

Constant int value for the person.

getGender

public int getGender()

Returns the gender for this pronoun. Gender can hold the following constant values:

• MALE
• FEMALE
• NEUTER

Returns:

Constant int value for the gender.

isGroup

public boolean isGroup()

Returns if the pronoun represents a group.

Returns:

True if the pronoun represents a group. False otherwise.