PROPOSITION {MoLE}

Develop initial proposition

Description

Develop initial proposition that consists of the expressions that refer to the participants of the event to be expressed (both objects and action). Proposition will be elaborated upon in later stages of the production processs, and word may be replaced later if they turn out to be insufficient (cf. PREPARE).

Usage

PROPOSITION(speakerID, situation)

Arguments

speakerID

Pointer to speaker agent

situation

Situation with target event to be referred to and number of distractor event

Details

Words are ranked on the basis of a combination of semantic match (how well does word refer to its participant), frequency, and recency (cf. CANDIDATEORDER). The first word to be sufficiently distinctive is selected for expression.

Value

a proposition, i.e. a list:

external

representation of the external argument

internal

representation of the internal argument

verb

representation of the action argument

target

target event to be described

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TURN

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)