pepper.language.transitivity module

Created on Wed Apr 3 11:28:43 2019

@author: andrasaponyi

pepper.language.transitivity.check_synonyms(verb)

Return the transitivity of a verb’s synonyms. To be called if the initial transitivity score is 0, but there is reason to believe that the verb is indeed transitive. I am still working on a method to determine how this decision can be made.

pepper.language.transitivity.get_synonyms(verb)

Return the synonyms of the most frequent sense of a verb.

pepper.language.transitivity.get_transitivity(verb)

Take a verb lemma as input. Return transitivity score and VerbNet (VN) frames if available.

The returned tuple is constructed in the following way:

-the first element is the transitivity score, where:

-1 equals transitive -0 equals intransitive (or at least according to VN)

-the second element is a list of tuples, each of which consists of:

-first, the VN class_id of a given meaning of a verb -second, the corresponding frame itself

Regardless of the length of the transitive frames list, the transitivty score remains the same.