ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.ontology
Class VerbRole

java.lang.Object
  ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.ontology.OntologyElement
      ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.ontology.Role
          ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.ontology.VerbRole

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<OntologyElement>

public class VerbRole
extends Role

This class stands for roles that are represented by a transitive verb. Transitive verbs have three word forms: a third singular form, a bare infinitive form , and a passive form. The bare infinitive form is used in the case of negation and plural. The passive form always ends with the word "by".

0: third singular form. 1: bare infinitive form. 2: passive form.

Examples: ["gives", "give", "given by"]; ["knows", "know", "known by"].

Author:

Tobias Kuhn

Constructor Summary

VerbRole()
Creates a new verb role.

Method Summary

protected void	changeWords(java.lang.String... words) Changes the word forms without updating the ontology indexes.
java.lang.String	getInternalType() Returns the word type as it is used internally.
java.lang.String	getPastPart() Returns the past participle which is the passive form without the "by".
java.lang.String	getPrettyPastPart() Returns the pretty-printed past participle.
java.lang.String	getType() Returns the word type as it is shown to the user.
java.lang.String[]	getWords() Returns the word forms.

Methods inherited from class ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.core.ontology.OntologyElement

add, compareTo, edit, getHeadword, getIndexEntries, getOntology, getPrettyWord, getSentences, getURI, getURISuffix, getWord, getWord, log, registerAt, remove, setWords, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VerbRole

public VerbRole()

Creates a new verb role.

Method Detail

getWords

public java.lang.String[] getWords()

Description copied from class: OntologyElement

Returns the word forms. The position in the array corresponds to the word form id.

Specified by:

getWords in class OntologyElement

Returns:

An array containing the word forms.

changeWords

protected void changeWords(java.lang.String... words)

Description copied from class: OntologyElement

Changes the word forms without updating the ontology indexes. The order reflects the word form ids.

Specified by:

changeWords in class OntologyElement

Parameters:

words - The word forms.

getPastPart

public java.lang.String getPastPart()

Returns the past participle which is the passive form without the "by". E.g. for the passive form "given by", the past participle is "given".

Returns:

The past participle form.

getPrettyPastPart

public java.lang.String getPrettyPastPart()

Returns the pretty-printed past participle. The pretty printing replaces underscores by blanks.

Returns:

The pretty-printed past participle form.

See Also:

getPastPart()

getType

public java.lang.String getType()

Description copied from class: OntologyElement

Returns the word type as it is shown to the user. Newer versions of AceWiki can savely change this value.

Specified by:

getType in class OntologyElement

Returns:

The word type.

getInternalType

public java.lang.String getInternalType()

Description copied from class: OntologyElement

Returns the word type as it is used internally. Changing this value in newer versions of AceWiki breaks backwards compatibility for loading ontologies.

Specified by:

getInternalType in class OntologyElement

Returns:

The internal word type.