PREPARE: Prepare a proposition for production

In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description

Prepare a proposition for production by checking if it will be intelligible and applying generalizations.

Usage

PREPARE(speakerID, proposition, situation)

Arguments

speakerID	Pointer to speaker agent
proposition	Proposition that is prepared for production
situation	Situation in which proposition is to be uttered.

Details

PREPARE involves a number of subroutines: If role distribution is unclear, agents checks if this can be resolved with pronominal case forms and if not with noun markers (CHECKSUCCESS). If referential expression is too weak, stronger expressions are used (REFCHECK). If generalizations such as PutAgentFirst or IndexFirstPerson are made, they are applied (GENERALIZE). If words are frequently used, their forms are reduced (REDUCE). Etc. Ingredients of proposition are ordered by activation before other principles apply

Value

a proposition, i.e. a list:

external	representation of the external argument, possibly including role marking
internal	representation of the internal argument, if identified, , possibly including role marking
verb	representation of the action argument, possibly including person indexing
target	target event to be described

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TURN

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
PREPARE(1, proposition, situation) 
#result need not be different from simple proposition, 
#depends on generalizations and typing scores

MoLE documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:02 p.m.