/// <summary>
/// Gets a pronoun based on the referral and referee wildcards
/// </summary>
/// <returns>A pronoun to refer the wilcard received as referee.</returns>
/// <param name="referral">The refering wildcard.</param>
/// <param name="referee">The wildcard being referred.</param>
public static string FromWildcard(Wildcard referral, Wildcard referee)
{
if ((referee == null) || (referral == null))
{
Console.WriteLine("referral or referee is null");
throw new NullReferenceException("referral or referee is null");
}
if (referral.Name != "pron")
{
Console.WriteLine("referral is not a {pron} wildcard");
throw new InvalidOperationException("referral is not a {pron} wildcard");
}
Gender g;
switch (referee.Keyword)
{
case "male":
g = Gender.Masculine;
break;
case "female":
g = Gender.Femenine;
break;
default:
g = Gender.Neutral;
break;
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(referral.Type))
{
switch (referral.Type.Substring(0, 3))
{
case "sub":
return(Personal.Subjective(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
case "pab":
return(Possessive.PossessiveAbsolute(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
case "paj":
return(Possessive.PossessiveAdjective(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
case "pos":
if (referral.Type.StartsWith("posabs"))
{
return(Possessive.PossessiveAbsolute(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
}
return(Possessive.PossessiveAdjective(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
}
}
return(Personal.Objective(Form.Singular, Person.Third, g));
}