TentativeResolveResults class | action.t[3828]

"Tentative" noun resolver results gather. This type of results gatherer is used to perform a tentative pre-resolution of an object of a multi-object action.

Consider what happens when we resolve a two-object action, such as "put <dobj> in <iobj>". Since we have two objects, we obviously must resolve one object or the other first; but this means that we must resolve one object with no knowledge of the resolution of the other object. This often makes it very difficult to resolve that first object intelligently, because we'd really like to know something about the other object. For example, if we first resolve the iobj of "put <dobj> in <iobj>", it would be nice to know which dobj we're talking about, since we could reduce the likelihood that the iobj is the dobj's present container.

Tentative resolution addresses this need by giving us some information about a later-resolved object while resolving an earlier-resolved object, even though we obviously can't have fully resolved the later-resolved object. In tentative resolution, we perform the resolution of the later-resolved object, completely in the dark about the earlier-resolved object(s), and come up with as much information as we can. The important thing about this stage of resolution is that we don't ask any interactive questions and we don't count anything for ranking purposes - we simply do the best we can and note the results, leaving any ranking or interaction for the true resolution phase that we'll perform later.

`class TentativeResolveResults : ResolveResults`

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

`TentativeResolveResults`
`ResolveResults`
`object`

Subclass Tree

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Global Objects

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Summary of Properties

`allowActionRemapping allowEquivalentFiltering npMissing`

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Summary of Methods

`ambiguousNounPhrase askMissingLiteral askMissingObject canResolveInteractively construct emptyNounPhrase incCommandCount insufficientQuantity noMatch noMatchForAll noMatchForAllBut noMatchForListBut noMatchForLocation noMatchForPossessive noMatchForPronoun noMatchPoss noteActorSpecified noteAdjEnding noteBadPrep noteEmptyBut noteIndefinite noteLiteral noteMatches noteMiscWordList noteNounSlots notePronoun noteWeakPhrasing nothingInLocation noVocabMatch reflexiveNotAllowed uniqueObjectRequired unknownNounPhrase wrongReflexive zeroQuantity`

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Properties

`allowActionRemapping` | `action.t[3864]`

no description available

`allowEquivalentFiltering` | `action.t[3872]`

during the tentative phase, keep all equivalents - we don't want to make any arbitrary choices among equivalents during this phase, because doing so could improperly force a choice among otherwise ambiguous resolutions to the other phrase

`npMissing` | `action.t[3912]`

flag: the noun phrase we're resolving is a missing noun phrase, which means that we'll ask for it to be filled in when we get around to resolving it for real

Methods

`ambiguousNounPhrase (keeper, asker, txt, matchList, fullMatchList, scopeList, requiredNum, resolver)` | `action.t[3878]`

for ambiguous results, don't attempt to narrow things down - just keep the entire list

`askMissingLiteral (action, which)` | `action.t[3902]`

no interaction is allowed, so return no tokens if we need to ask for a literal

`askMissingObject (asker, resolver, responseProd)` | `action.t[3889]`

no interaction is allowed, so return nothing if we need to ask for a missing object

`canResolveInteractively ( )` | `action.t[3905]`

no interaction is allowed during tentative resolution

`construct (target, issuer)` | `action.t[3829]`

no description available

`emptyNounPhrase (resolver)` | `action.t[3851]`

no description available

`incCommandCount ( )` | `action.t[3860]`

no description available

`insufficientQuantity (txt, matchList, requiredNum)` | `action.t[3853]`

no description available

`noMatch (action, txt)` | `action.t[3835]`

ignore most resolution problems, since this is only a tentative resolution pass

`noMatchForAll ( )` | `action.t[3838]`

no description available

`noMatchForAllBut ( )` | `action.t[3840]`

no description available

`noMatchForListBut ( )` | `action.t[3841]`

no description available

`noMatchForLocation (loc, txt)` | `action.t[3846]`

no description available

`noMatchForPossessive (owner, txt)` | `action.t[3845]`

no description available

`noMatchForPronoun (typ, txt)` | `action.t[3842]`

no description available

`noMatchPoss (action, txt)` | `action.t[3836]`

no description available

`noteActorSpecified ( )` | `action.t[3861]`

no description available

`noteAdjEnding ( )` | `action.t[3855]`

no description available

`noteBadPrep ( )` | `action.t[3847]`

no description available

`noteEmptyBut ( )` | `action.t[3839]`

no description available

`noteIndefinite ( )` | `action.t[3856]`

no description available

`noteLiteral (txt)` | `action.t[3850]`

no description available

`noteMatches (matchList)` | `action.t[3859]`

no description available

`noteMiscWordList (txt)` | `action.t[3857]`

no description available

`noteNounSlots (cnt)` | `action.t[3862]`

no description available

`notePronoun ( )` | `action.t[3858]`

no description available

`noteWeakPhrasing (level)` | `action.t[3863]`

no description available

`nothingInLocation (loc)` | `action.t[3848]`

no description available

`noVocabMatch (action, txt)` | `action.t[3837]`

no description available

`reflexiveNotAllowed (typ, txt)` | `action.t[3843]`

no description available

`uniqueObjectRequired (txt, matchList)` | `action.t[3854]`

no description available

`unknownNounPhrase (match, resolver)` | `action.t[3849]`

no description available

`wrongReflexive (typ, txt)` | `action.t[3844]`

no description available

`zeroQuantity (txt)` | `action.t[3852]`

no description available

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