public void testRequiresAn()
{
Assert.IsTrue(DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn("elephant"));
Assert.IsFalse(DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn("cow"));
// Does not hand phonetics
Assert.IsFalse(DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn("hour"));
// But does have exceptions for some numerals
Assert.IsFalse(DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn("one"));
Assert.IsFalse(DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn("100"));
}
/**
* Check to see if a string ends with the indefinite article "a" and it agrees with {@code np}.
* @param text
* @param np
* @return an altered version of {@code text} to use "an" if it agrees with {@code np}, the original string otherwise.
*/
public static string checkEndsWithIndefiniteArticle(string text, string np)
{
var tokens = text.Split(' ');
var lastToken = tokens[tokens.Length - 1];
if (lastToken.equalsIgnoreCase("a") && DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn(np))
{
tokens[tokens.Length - 1] = "an";
return(stringArrayToString(tokens));
}
return(text);
}
/**
* This method performs the morphology for determiners.
*
* @param determiner
* the <code>InflectedWordElement</code>.
* @param realisation
* the current realisation of the determiner.
*/
public static void doDeterminerMorphology(INLGElement determiner, string realisation)
{
if (realisation != null)
{
if (!(determiner.getRealisation().Equals("a")))
{
if (determiner.isPlural())
{
// Use default inflection rules:
if ("that".Equals(determiner.getRealisation()))
{
determiner.setRealisation("those");
}
else if ("this".Equals(determiner.getRealisation()))
{
determiner.setRealisation("these");
}
}
else if (!determiner.isPlural())
{
// Use default push back to base form rules:
if ("those".Equals(determiner.getRealisation()))
{
determiner.setRealisation("that");
}
else if ("these".Equals(determiner.getRealisation()))
{
determiner.setRealisation("this");
}
}
}
// Special "a" determiner and perform a/an agreement:
if (determiner.getRealisation().Equals("a"))
{
if (determiner.isPlural())
{
determiner.setRealisation("some");
}
else if (DeterminerAgrHelper.requiresAn(realisation))
{
determiner.setRealisation("an");
}
}
}
}
