/** * Creates a stack of verbs for the verb phrase. Additional auxiliary verbs * are added as required based on the features of the verb phrase. * * @param parent * the parent <code>SyntaxProcessor</code> that will do the * realisation of the complementiser. * @param phrase * the <code>PhraseElement</code> representing this noun phrase. * @return the verb group as a <code>Stack</code> of <code>NLGElement</code> * s. */ public static Stack <INLGElement> createVerbGroup( SyntaxProcessor parent, PhraseElement phrase) { string actualModal = null; var formValue = phrase.getFeature(Feature.FORM.ToString()); Tense tenseValue = phrase.getFeatureTense(Feature.TENSE.ToString()); var modal = phrase.getFeatureAsString(Feature.MODAL.ToString()); var modalPast = false; var vgComponents = new Stack <INLGElement>(); var interrogative = phrase.hasFeature(Feature.INTERROGATIVE_TYPE.ToString()); if (Form.GERUND.Equals(formValue) || Form.INFINITIVE.Equals(formValue)) { tenseValue = Tense.PRESENT; } if (Form.INFINITIVE.Equals(formValue)) { actualModal = "to"; } else if (formValue == null || Form.NORMAL.Equals(formValue)) { if (Tense.FUTURE.Equals(tenseValue) && modal == null && ((!(phrase.getHead() is CoordinatedPhraseElement)) || (phrase .getHead() is CoordinatedPhraseElement && interrogative))) { actualModal = "will"; } else if (modal != null) { actualModal = modal; if (Tense.PAST.Equals(tenseValue)) { modalPast = true; } } } pushParticles(phrase, parent, vgComponents); var frontVG = grabHeadVerb(phrase, tenseValue, modal != null); checkImperativeInfinitive(formValue, frontVG); if (phrase.getFeatureAsBoolean(Feature.PASSIVE.ToString())) { frontVG = addBe(frontVG, vgComponents, Form.PAST_PARTICIPLE); } if (phrase.getFeatureAsBoolean(Feature.PROGRESSIVE.ToString())) { frontVG = addBe(frontVG, vgComponents, Form.PRESENT_PARTICIPLE); } if (phrase.getFeatureAsBoolean(Feature.PERFECT.ToString()) || modalPast) { frontVG = addHave(frontVG, vgComponents, modal, tenseValue); } frontVG = pushIfModal(actualModal != null, phrase, frontVG, vgComponents); frontVG = createNot(phrase, vgComponents, frontVG, modal != null); if (frontVG != null) { pushFrontVerb(phrase, vgComponents, frontVG, formValue, interrogative); } pushModal(actualModal, phrase, vgComponents); return(vgComponents); }