[Attempto] Bug on if then sentence

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi Pierre-Alexandre Voye,

I don't think it's a bug, but using "-guess" can lead to unexpected 
results. If you use word class prefixes (or even better a lexicon), the 
sentence parses as expected:

> If a user v:clicks on a button B1 and a name of B1 is "Submit" and p:FirstNameTextField is empty or p:LastNameTextField is empty then p:Droopy is happy.

In your version, the guessing assumed "click" to be an adverb and "on a 
button B1 and a name of B1" to be a prepositional phrase, both attached 
to the verb "is". So the sentence gets roughly the same syntax tree as 
"a user normally on Monday and Tuesday is happy", which is a bit an 
unconventional structure in English but is valid in ACE.

Regards,
Tobias


On 29.05.2018 00:17, Pierre-Alexandre Voye wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I find what I think is a bug on APE.
> 
> When I test this sentences with "./ape.exe -cdrs -guess -cparaphrase1"
> If a user clicks on a button B1 and a name of B1 is "Submit" and 
> FirstNameTextField is empty or LastNameTextField is empty then Droopy is 
> happy.
> 
> The paraphraser returned :
> 
> If a user is "Submit" clicks on a button X1 and a name of the button X1 
> and FirstNameTextField is empty or LastNameTextField is empty then 
> Droopy is happy.
> 
> Which is wrong.
> 
> Looking more closely the DRS returned by APE, I see something I think 
> wrong :
> object(A,user,countable,na,eq,1)-1/3
> [...]
> predicate(C,be,A,string('Submit'))-1/16
> So, litteraly : "user is Submit", which is consistent whith the sentence 
> returned by the paraphraser (-cparaphrase1 option)
> 
> Do you think it's fixable ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pierre-Alexandre Voye
> 
> 
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