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Sigma knowledge engineering system is an system for developing, viewing and debugging theories in first order logic. It works with Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) and is optimized for the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) www.ontologyportal.org.

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package com.articulate.sigma.nlg;

import com.google.common.collect.HashMultiset;
import com.google.common.collect.Multiset;

/**
 * An element in a sentence conceived of as having a Subject-Verb-Object grammar.
 * Not all properties will be used by all the positions.
 */

public class SVOElement {
    public enum SVOGrammarPosition {SUBJECT, DIRECT_OBJECT, INDIRECT_OBJECT}

    public static enum NUMBER {
        SINGULAR, PLURAL;

        /**
         * Given a count, return singular or plural. If ct is 0, returns singular.
         * Throws IllegalArgumentException if ct < 0.
         * @param ct
         * @return
         */
        public static NUMBER getNumber(int ct)    {
            if (ct < 0)  {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("ct cannot be less than zero to determine singular or plural.");
            }

            if (ct == 0 || ct == 1) {
                return SINGULAR;
            }
            else    {
                return PLURAL;
            }
        }
    }


    public final SVOGrammarPosition position;

    private String surfaceForm = "";

    /**
     * Performs two tasks: keeps track of which case roles have been used to fill this grammatical position; and
     * lets outsiders know if the grammatical position is singular or plural
     */
    private Multiset consumedCaseRoles = HashMultiset.create();

    public SVOElement(SVOGrammarPosition pos)   {
        position = pos;
    }

    /**************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * @return
     */
    public String getSurfaceForm() {
        return surfaceForm;
    }

    /**************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * @param surfaceForm
     */
    public void setSurfaceForm(String surfaceForm) {
        this.surfaceForm = surfaceForm;
    }

    /**************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * @return
     */
    public Multiset getConsumedCaseRoles() {
        return HashMultiset.create(consumedCaseRoles);
    }

    /**************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * @param role
     */
    public void addConsumedCaseRole(CaseRole role)  {
        consumedCaseRoles.add(role);
    }

    /**************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * @return
     */
    public NUMBER getSingularPlural()   {
        return NUMBER.getNumber(getConsumedCaseRoles().size());
    }
}