TopicAction

TopicActionclass

action.t[5727], en_us.t[9125]

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An action with a topic phrase as its only object, such as "think about <topic>".

The grammar rules that produce these actions must set topicMatch to the topic match tree.

Because we don't have any actual resolved objects, we're based on IAction. Subclasses that implement particular topic actions should override execAction() to carry out the action; this method can call the getTopic() method of self to get a string giving the topic.

Modified in en_us.t[9125]:
English-specific additions for verbs taking a topic phrase as the sole object.

class TopicAction : TopicActionBase IAction

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

TopicAction
TopicActionBase
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IAction
Action
BasicProd
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Summary of Properties

predicateNounPhrases

Inherited from TopicActionBase :
topicList_ topicQualResolver_ topicResolver_

Inherited from Action :
actionTime afterActionMainList beforeAfterObjs defaultForRecursion extraMessageParams implicitMsg includeInUndo isImplicit isRepeatable iterationCanceled originalAction parentAction preCond pronounOverride remappedFrom showDefaultReports synthParamID verbFlags verifiedOkay

Inherited from BasicProd :
firstTokenIndex isSpecialResponseMatch lastTokenIndex

Summary of Methods

getQuestionInf getVerbPhrase resolveNouns setObjectMatches setResolvedObjects whatObj

Inherited from TopicActionBase :
createTopicResolver getMessageParam getTopic getTopicQualifierResolver getTopicResolver reparseMatchAsTopic resolveTopic setResolvedTopic setTopicMatch

Inherited from IAction :
doActionMain

Inherited from Action :
actionOfKind addBeforeAfterObj afterAction afterActionMain announceActionObject announceAllDefaultObjects announceDefaultObject beforeAction beforeActionMain cacheMultiObjectAnnouncements callAfterActionMain callCatchAllProp callPreConditions callVerifyPreCond callVerifyProp cancelIteration checkAction checkPreConditions checkRemapping combineRemappedVerifyResults createActionFrom createActionInstance createTopicQualifierResolver doAction doActionOnce execAction filterAmbiguousWithVerify filterFacets filterPluralWithVerify finishResolveList getAnaphoricBinding getCurrentObjects getDefaultWithVerify getEnteredVerbPhrase getImplicitPhrase getInfPhrase getMatchForRole getNotifyTable getObjectForRole getObjPreCondDescList getObjPreConditions getObjResponseProd getOriginalAction getOrigTokenList getOtherObjectRole getParticiplePhrase getPreCondDescList getPreCondPropForRole getPredicate getPronounOverride getRemappedFrom getRemapPropForRole getResolvedObjList getResolveInfo getRoleFromIndex getSimpleSynonymRemap getSortedVerifyResults getVerifyPropForRole initTentative isConversational isNestedIn isPartOf isRemapped makeResolveInfo makeResolveInfoList maybeAnnounceDefaultObject maybeAnnounceImplicit maybeAnnounceMultiObject noMatch notifyBeforeAfter objListPronoun preAnnounceActionObject recalcSenseContext repeatAction resetAction resolveAction resolvedObjectsInScope runBeforeNotifiers saveActionForAgain setCurrentObjects setImplicit setMessageParam setMessageParams setNested setOriginalAction setPronounOverride setRemapped spPrefix spSuffix synthMessageParam verifyAction verifyHandlersExist whatTranslate withVerifyResults zeroActionTime

Inherited from BasicProd :
canResolveTo getOrigText setOrigTokenList

Properties

predicateNounPhrasesOVERRIDDEN action.t[5756]

we have a topic noun phrase

Methods

getQuestionInf (which)OVERRIDDEN en_us.t[9140]

handle this as though the topic text were a direct object phrase

getVerbPhrase (inf, ctx)OVERRIDDEN en_us.t[9133]

use the same processing as TAction

resolveNouns (issuingActor, targetActor, results)OVERRIDDEN action.t[5732]

Resolve objects. We don't actually have any normal objects to resolve, but we do have to get the resolved topic phrase.

setObjectMatches (topic)OVERRIDDEN action.t[5749]

manually set the pre-resolved match trees

setResolvedObjects (topic)OVERRIDDEN action.t[5742]

manually set the resolved objects

whatObj (which)OVERRIDDEN en_us.t[9127]

get an interrogative word for an object of the action

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