Module:gender and number
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:gender and number/doc
--[=[
This module creates standardised displays for gender and number.
It converts a gender specification into Wiki/HTML format.
A gender/number specification consists of one or more gender/number elements, separated by hyphens.
Examples are: "n" (neuter gender), "f-p" (feminine plural), "m-an-p" (masculine animate plural),
"pf" (perfective aspect). Each gender/number element has the following properties:
1. A code, as used in the spec, e.g. "f" for feminine, "p" for plural".
2. A type, e.g. "gender", "number" or "animacy". Each element in a given spec must be of a different type.
3. A display form, which in turn consists of a display code and a tooltip gloss. The display code
may not be the same as the spec code, e.g. the spec code "an" has display code "anim" and tooltip
gloss "animate".
4. A category into which lemmas of the right part of speech are placed if they have a gender/number
spec containing the given element. For example, a noun with gender/number spec "m-an-p" is placed
into the categories "LANG masculine nouns", "LANG animate nouns" and "LANG pluralia tantum".
]=]--
local export = {}
local codes = {}
-- A list of all possible "parts" that a specification can be made out of. For each part, we list
-- the class it's in (gender, animacy, etc.), the associated category (if any) and the display form.
-- In a given gender/number spec, only one part of each class is allowed.
codes["?"] = {type = "other", display = '<abbr title="gender incomplete">?</abbr>'}
-- Genders
codes["m"] = {type = "gender", cat = "masculine POS", display = '<abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr>'}
codes["f"] = {type = "gender", cat = "feminine POS", display = '<abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr>'}
codes["n"] = {type = "gender", cat = "neuter POS", display = '<abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr>'}
codes["c"] = {type = "gender", cat = "common-gender POS", display = '<abbr title="common gender">c</abbr>'}
-- Animacy
codes["an"] = {type = "animacy", cat = "animate POS", display = '<abbr title="animate">anim</abbr>'}
codes["in"] = {type = "animacy", cat = "inanimate POS", display = '<abbr title="inanimate">inan</abbr>'}
-- Animal (for Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish)
codes["anml"] = {type = "animacy", cat = "animal POS", display = '<abbr title="animal">animal</abbr>'}
-- Personal (for Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish)
codes["pr"] = {type = "animacy", cat = "personal POS", display = '<abbr title="personal">pers</abbr>'}
-- Nonpersonal not currently used
codes["np"] = {type = "animacy", cat = "nonpersonal POS", display = '<abbr title="nonpersonal">npers</abbr>'}
-- Virility (for Polish)
codes["vr"] = {type = "virility", cat = "virile POS", display = '<abbr title="virile">vir</abbr>'}
codes["nv"] = {type = "virility", cat = "nonvirile POS", display = '<abbr title="nonvirile">nvir</abbr>'}
-- Numbers
codes["s"] = {type = "number", display = '<abbr title="singular number">sg</abbr>'}
codes["d"] = {type = "number", cat = "dualia tantum", display = '<abbr title="dual number">du</abbr>'}
codes["p"] = {type = "number", cat = "pluralia tantum", display = '<abbr title="plural number">pl</abbr>'}
-- Verb qualifiers
codes["impf"] = {type = "aspect", cat = "imperfective POS", display = '<abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr>'}
codes["pf"] = {type = "aspect", cat = "perfective POS", display = '<abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr>'}
-- Combined codes that are equivalent to giving multiple specs. `mf` is the same as specifying two separate specs,
-- one with `m` in it and the other with `f`. `mfbysense` is similar but is used for nouns that can be either masculine
-- or feminine according as to whether they refer to masculine or feminine beings.
local combined_codes = {}
combined_codes["mf"] = {codes = {"m", "f"}}
combined_codes["mfbysense"] = {codes = {"m", "f"}, cat = "masculine and feminine POS by sense"}
-- Categories when multiple gender/number specs of a given type occur in different
local codetype_cats = {}
codetype_cats["gender"] = "POS with multiple genders"
codetype_cats["animacy"] = "POS with multiple animacies"
codetype_cats["aspect"] = "biaspectual POS"
-- Version of format_list that can be invoked from a template.
function export.show_list(frame)
local args = frame.args
local lang = args["lang"]; if lang == "" then lang = nil end
local list = {}
local i = 1
while args[i] and args[i] ~= "" do
table.insert(list, args[i])
i = i + 1
end
return export.format_list(list, lang)
end
-- Older entry point; equivalent to format_genders() except that it formats the
-- categories and returns them appended to the formatted gender text rather than
-- returning the formatted text and categories separately.
function export.format_list(specs, lang, pos_for_cat, sort_key)
local text, cats = export.format_genders(specs, lang, pos_for_cat)
if #cats == 0 then
return text
end
return text .. require("Module:utilities/format_categories")(cats, lang, sort_key)
end
-- Format one or more gender/number specifications. Each spec is either a string, e.g. "f-p", or
-- a table of the form {spec = "SPEC", qualifiers = {"QUALIFIER", "QUALIFIER", ...}} where `.spec`
-- is a gender/number spec such as "f-p" and `.qualifiers` is a list of qualifiers to display before
-- the formatted gender/number spec. `.spec` must be present but `.qualifiers` may be omitted.
-- The function returns two values:
-- (a) the formatted text;
-- (b) a list of the categories to add.
-- If `lang` and `pos_for_cat` are given, gender categories such as "German masculine nouns" or
-- "Russian imperfective verbs" are added to the categories. Otherwise, if only `lang` is given,
-- the only category that may be returned is "Requests for gender in LANG entries". If both are
-- omitted, the returned list is empty.
function export.format_genders(specs, lang, pos_for_cat)
local formatted_specs = {}
local categories = {}
local seen_types = {}
local category_text = ""
local all_is_nounclass = nil
local function do_gender_spec(spec, parts)
local types = {}
for key, code in ipairs(parts) do
-- Is this code valid?
if not codes[code] then
error('The tag "' .. code .. '" in the gender specification "' .. spec.spec .. '" is not valid.')
end
-- Check for multiple genders/numbers/animacies in a single spec.
local typ = codes[code].type
if typ ~= "other" and types[typ] then
--require("Module:debug").track("gender and number/multiple")
--require("Module:debug").track("gender and number/multiple/" .. spec)
error('The gender specification "' .. spec.spec .. '" contains multiple tags of type "' .. typ .. '".')
end
types[typ] = true
if spec.qualifiers and #spec.qualifiers > 0 then
parts[key] = require("Module:qualifier").format_qualifier(spec.qualifiers) .. " " .. codes[code].display
else
parts[key] = codes[code].display
end
-- Generate categories if called for.
if lang and pos_for_cat then
local cat = codes[code].cat
if cat then
table.insert(categories, lang:getCanonicalName() .. " " .. cat)
end
if seen_types[typ] and seen_types[typ] ~= code then
cat = codetype_cats[typ]
if cat then
table.insert(categories, lang:getCanonicalName() .. " " .. cat)
end
end
seen_types[typ] = code
end
end
-- Add the processed codes together with non-breaking spaces
if #parts == 1 then
return parts[1]
end
return table.concat(parts, " ")
end
for _, spec in ipairs(specs) do
if type(spec) ~= "table" then
spec = {spec = spec}
end
local is_nounclass
-- If the specification starts with cX, then it is a noun class specification.
if spec.spec:find("^[1-9]") or spec.spec:find("^c[^-]") then
is_nounclass = true
code = spec.spec:gsub("^c", "")
local text
if code == "?" then
text = '<abbr class="noun-class" title="noun class missing">?</abbr>'
else
text = '<abbr class="noun-class" title="noun class ' .. code .. '">' .. code .. "</abbr>"
if lang and pos_for_cat then
table.insert(categories, lang:getCanonicalName() .. " class " .. code .. " POS")
end
end
local text_with_qual
if spec.qualifiers and #spec.qualifiers > 0 then
text_with_qual = require("Module:qualifier").format_qualifier(spec.qualifiers) .. " " .. text
else
text_with_qual = text
end
table.insert(formatted_specs, text_with_qual)
else
-- Split the parts and iterate over each part, converting it into its display form
local parts = mw.text.split(spec.spec, "%-")
local extra_cats = {}
local has_combined = false
for _, code in ipairs(parts) do
if combined_codes[code] then
has_combined = true
break
end
end
if not has_combined then
table.insert(formatted_specs, do_gender_spec(spec, parts))
else
local all_parts = {{}}
for i, code in ipairs(parts) do
if combined_codes[code] then
local new_all_parts = {}
for _, one_parts in ipairs(all_parts) do
for _, one_code in ipairs(combined_codes[code].codes) do
local new_combined_parts = mw.clone(one_parts)
table.insert(new_combined_parts, one_code)
table.insert(new_all_parts, new_combined_parts)
end
end
all_parts = new_all_parts
if lang and pos_for_cat then
local extra_cat = combined_codes[code].cat
if extra_cat then
table.insert(extra_cats, lang:getCanonicalName() .. " " .. extra_cat)
end
end
else
for _, one_parts in ipairs(all_parts) do
table.insert(one_parts, code)
end
end
end
for _, parts in ipairs(all_parts) do
table.insert(formatted_specs, do_gender_spec(spec, parts))
end
end
if #extra_cats > 0 then
for _, cat in ipairs(extra_cats) do
table.insert(categories, cat)
end
end
if lang then
-- Do some additional gender checks if a language was given
-- Is this an incomplete gender?
if spec.spec:find("?") then
table.insert(categories, "Requests for gender in " .. lang:getCanonicalName() .. " entries")
end
-- Check if the specification is valid
--elseif langinfo.genders then
-- local valid_genders = {}
-- for _, g in ipairs(langinfo.genders) do valid_genders[g] = true end
--
-- if not valid_genders[spec.spec] then
-- local valid_string = {}
-- for i, g in ipairs(langinfo.genders) do valid_string[i] = g end
-- error('The gender specification "' .. spec.spec .. '" is not valid for ' .. langinfo.names[1] .. ". Valid are: " .. table.concat(valid_string, ", "))
-- end
--end
end
is_nounclass = false
end
-- Ensure that the specifications are either all noun classes, or none are.
if all_is_nounclass == nil then
all_is_nounclass = is_nounclass
elseif all_is_nounclass ~= is_nounclass then
error("Noun classes and genders cannot be mixed. Please use either one or the other.")
end
end
if lang and pos_for_cat then
for i, cat in ipairs(categories) do
categories[i] = cat:gsub("POS", pos_for_cat)
end
end
if is_nounclass then
-- Add the processed codes together with slashes
return '<span class="gender">class ' .. table.concat(formatted_specs, "/") .. "</span>", categories
else
-- Add the processed codes together with " or "
return '<span class="gender">' .. table.concat(formatted_specs, " or ") .. "</span>", categories
end
end
return export