/**
* This is the main method for performing the morphology. It effectively
* examines the lexical category of the element and calls the relevant set
* of rules from <code>MorphologyRules</em>.
*
* @param element
* the <code>InflectedWordElement</code>
* @return an <code>NLGElement</code> reflecting the correct inflection for
* the word.
*/
private INLGElement doMorphology(InflectedWordElement element)
{
INLGElement realisedElement = null;
if (element.getFeatureAsBoolean(InternalFeature.NON_MORPH.ToString()))
{
realisedElement = new StringElement(element.getBaseForm());
realisedElement.setFeature(InternalFeature.DISCOURSE_FUNCTION.ToString(),
element.getFeature(InternalFeature.DISCOURSE_FUNCTION.ToString()));
}
else
{
INLGElement baseWord = element.getFeatureAsElement(InternalFeature.BASE_WORD.ToString());
if (baseWord == null && this.lexicon != null)
{
baseWord = this.lexicon.lookupWord(element.getBaseForm());
}
var category = element.getCategory();
if (category is ILexicalCategory)
{
switch ((LexicalCategoryEnum)category.enumType)
{
case LexicalCategoryEnum.PRONOUN:
realisedElement = MorphologyRules.doPronounMorphology(element);
break;
case LexicalCategoryEnum.NOUN:
realisedElement = MorphologyRules.doNounMorphology(element, (WordElement)baseWord);
break;
case LexicalCategoryEnum.VERB:
realisedElement = MorphologyRules.doVerbMorphology(element, (WordElement)baseWord);
break;
case LexicalCategoryEnum.ADJECTIVE:
realisedElement = MorphologyRules.doAdjectiveMorphology(element, (WordElement)baseWord);
break;
case LexicalCategoryEnum.ADVERB:
realisedElement = MorphologyRules.doAdverbMorphology(element, (WordElement)baseWord);
break;
default:
realisedElement = new StringElement(element.getBaseForm());
realisedElement.setFeature(InternalFeature.DISCOURSE_FUNCTION.ToString(),
element.getFeature(InternalFeature.DISCOURSE_FUNCTION.ToString()));
break;
}
}
}
return(realisedElement);
}
/**
* return the base form of a word
*
* @param element
* @param baseWord
* @return
*/
private static string getBaseForm(InflectedWordElement element, WordElement baseWord)
{
// unclear what the right behaviour should be
// for now, prefer baseWord.getBaseForm() to element.getBaseForm() for
// verbs (ie, "is" mapped to "be")
// but prefer element.getBaseForm() to baseWord.getBaseForm() for other
// words (ie, "children" not mapped to "child")
// AG: changed this to get the default spelling variant
// needed to preserve spelling changes in the VP
if ((int)LexicalCategoryEnum.VERB == element.getCategory().enumType)
{
if (baseWord != null && baseWord.getDefaultSpellingVariant() != null)
{
return(baseWord.getDefaultSpellingVariant());
}
else
{
return(element.getBaseForm());
}
}
else
{
if (element.getBaseForm() != null)
{
return(element.getBaseForm());
}
else if (baseWord == null)
{
return(null);
}
else
{
return(baseWord.getDefaultSpellingVariant());
}
}
// if (LexicalCategory.VERB == element.getCategory()) {
// if (baseWord != null && baseWord.getBaseForm() != null)
// return baseWord.getBaseForm();
// else
// return element.getBaseForm();
// } else {
// if (element.getBaseForm() != null)
// return element.getBaseForm();
// else if (baseWord == null)
// return null;
// else
// return baseWord.getBaseForm();
// }
}