Quantifiers and Determiners

All of the examples we’ve used so far have produced quantifiers in their MRS, and all have been implemented automatically by the system:

• “A file is large”: a_q
• “Which files are large?”: which_q
• “Delete a file”: pronoun_q

etc.

This will almost always be the case because quantifiers are not application specific. As described in the Solution Group Algorithm topic, quantifers do two things, neither of which is usually application specific:

• scope variables
• constrain their variables to be a certain count

So, the system can manage them automatically across applications.

The same is true for determiners that count like “a few”, “less than 3”, “both”, etc.

TODO: describe how to build one that isn’t in the system like “this”

Last update: 2023-05-16 by EricZinda [edit]